Factors Influencing the Management of Agricultural Products at Cauvery Delta Thanjavur District

Abstract

Agriculture is the major important economic activity in the world. It is the newlineprincipal enterprises of human kind through most of recorded history, employs 45 percent newlineof the working population. In some parts of Asia and Africa, over 80 percent of labour newlineforce is engaged in agriculture. India economic security continues to predict upon the newlineagriculture sector and its situation is not likely to change in foreseeable future. Even now, newlineagriculture supports 58% of population, as against 75% of the time of independence. newlineNatural resource base of agriculture, which provides for sustainable production is newlinesinking, which affecting the production capacity. Thus an urgent need is to identify newlineseverity of problem confronting agriculture sector especially the farmers. India produces newline51 major crops, that were classified into plantation crop, food crop, cash crop and newlinehorticultural crops. There are many kinds of agricultural products produce in India. The newlineproduction of agriculture product, finance and marketing them are one of the challenges newlinein agricultural sector for the farmers. At the point of producer to consumer the newlineagricultural products has several complexity. Government has been providing subsides, newlineseveral measurement in agriculture sector to assist the farmer. But the farmers were not newlinegetting their fair price for the produce and the farmer s livelihood status is in stack in this newlineenvironment. The researchers took up this study focusing on the factors influencing the newlineproduction, marketing and financial management constrains that has been confronting newlinefarmers in Cauvery Delta. The study also suggests the different strategies that can be used newlineto make it easier for farmers to obtain maximum profit from the agricultural products. newlineBased on the previous literatures survey all the study factors that discussed regards to newlineagricultural determined based on the individual factors, i.e. (Production, finance and marketing).