Economic Analysis of Marigold Flower in Research Farm of IGKV Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
Jeet Raj *
Department of Soil and Water Engineering, SVCAET & RS IGKV, Raipur, India.
Jitendra Sinha
Department of Soil and Water Engineering, SVCAET & RS IGKV, Raipur, India.
Nilesh Kumar
Department of Soil and Water Engineering, SVCAET & RS IGKV, Raipur, India.
Nilima Jangre
Department of Soil and Water Engineering, SVCAET & RS IGKV, Raipur, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
In floriculture, marigold is one of India's most important commercially grown flower crops, which ranked third in number after Roses and Chrysanthemum. The present experiment was carried out during the winter season of the year 2019-2020 & 2020-2021 in the laboratory field of the Dept. of SWE, SVCAET &RS, IGKV, Raipur (C.G.) India. To study the economical analysis of Marigold crop cultivation with major constraints, three kinds of growing media was used like Cocopeat, soil and Farm Yard Manure (FYM) in three different growing containers viz: Reusable flour bags, conventional grow bags and plastic bottles with all the same growing conditions. In marigold crop production shows that the Reuseable Flour Bag (RFB) produced 13.65 MT flower, followed by plastic bottle (PB) 13.18 MT and Conventional Grow Bag (CGB) 13.03 MT in the same way the net benefit was calculated as highest as 296997.89 /ha in RFB, 249095.86 /ha in plastic bottle and 131078.79 /ha in RFB. The benefit-cost ratio was found to be highest in plastic bottles as 2.093, followed by 1.847 in RFB and 1.277 in CGB.
Keywords: Growing media, growing containers, economics of marigold, benefit-cost ratio, grow bag, plastic bottles