Wheat is the most important and popular cereals crop in India. Wheat is the main source of nutrients and energy in the human diet. The study was conducted in five district of the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh. The total sample was consist 300 farmers (150 beneficiary farmers and 150 non-beneficiary farmers). A large number, 50.00 percent of the respondents were having low category, increased (up to 3.8 q/ha) productivity after adopting the new technologies through WFLDs and larger part 60.00 percent of the respondents had low category increased their area under wheat cultivation. A comparison between beneficiary and non-beneficiary farmers, 08.00 percent of the beneficiary farmers reported their overall annual income was increased in high category i.e. >Rs. 100,000/-due to the FLDs of wheat production technology and only 02.00 percent of the non-beneficiary farmers reported their overall annual income was increased in high category i.e. >Rs. 100,000/-. Almost 72.67 percent of the respondents reported their overall purchasing power & improvement in life style was increased, due to the FLDs of wheat production technology. Majority 88.67 percent of the farmers expressed that MSP should be double in ways of effectiveness. The next opinion 81.67 percent of the farmers were cost of input should be decreased.
:Onion is being cultivated at around 14.34 thousand hectare with production of 440.28 thousand tonnes in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh. It is being grown mainly for storage or direct sale to the market. Maximum area (95 %) under onion cultivation was recorded 13.600 thousand hac with production of 429.90 thousand tonnes during Rabi season. Out of 429.90 thousand tonnes of total production hardily 20 per cent (87.10 thousand tonnes ) was stored under different storage structure and 72 per cent (278.315 thousand tonnes) onion were sold out directly to the market within 15 days of harvesting and remaining 15 per cent ( 64.485 thousand tonnes) recorded as post harvest losses. As a result during March to May prices of onion rule very low due to glut situation, thereafter, the rise in prices is quite rapid and sometimes wide fluctuation come about. Through intervention of technology by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kasturbagram as pre-harvest and post harvest technology management, enhancement of self-life and promotion of farmer's feasible storage structure were laid out with the help of Department of Horticulture, Government of Madhya Pradesh for promotion of onion storage warehouse. KEY WORDS :Onion, Production, Storage, Promotion HOW TO CITE THIS PAPER : Mishra, D.K., Singh, Jitendra, Jain, Rakesh and Pachlaniya, Nitin (2018). A case study-on production and promotion of storage capacity of onion in Indore district.
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