Economics of Tuberose Cultivation and its Marketing - A Case Study in Purba Medinipur District of West Bengal

Abstract

Tuberose cultivation is highly labour intensive and family labour plays a vital role. The cultivation of tuberose provides the farmers a stream of incomes over a considerable period of time during the year. But the existing marketing system with its varying categories of intermediaries is such that the farmers’ share in the consumers’ price is low. And contrary to this, the market intermediaries are enjoying the larger share in the consumers’ price.. Farmers’ share decreases with the increase in the length of the chain of the market.