Vegetable cultivation involves intensive cultural operations since sowing to marketing, providing regular employment opportunities to unemployed youth and farm family. Vegetable production is now commercialized, but still traditional farming is done in far flung areas. Besides, they are not as well served by the extension system as the farmers growing food grains. Moreover, most of the vegetable growers in this region are small and marginal farmers, and they have their peculiar concerns and problems which need to be studied urgently and earnest. The present study was carried out in Akola and Amravati districts of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state during the year 2019 with a sample size of 120 respondents to define the constraints faced by vegetable growers in Amravati division of Maharashtra. The major constraints faced by the vegetable growers were price fluctuation, electricity, fertigation, exploitation by middle men and lack of market knowledge.

Demonetization was rolled out in India to bring change in the national currency. The author has reviewed various articles to capture the experience of the roll out. Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi stated that it was done for economic development of India. On 8th November 2016, the government announced the demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 bank notes. The execution and experience of common man had mixed feeling about the announcement. Various authors’ views are reviewed and summarized in this paper. Common man faced both positive and negative consequences. It is a reform for addressing corruption and various sectors faced challenges. Real estate, Hawala transactions, Black money, Terror Financing, Counterfeit currency, Non-East insurgency, Kashmir unrest, Terror financing, Maoism etc. were challenged by the reform. Banks played vital role in execution and had to face pressure from the public. It affected the common man with its sudden implementation, scarcity of lower denomination notes to replace the old notes, restriction on amount of withdrawal, prolonged shortage of smaller denomination etc.