M. Dhital and S.M. Shakya

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ABSTRACT

TRACT The survey assessed the constraints and farmer’s perceptions on off season green onion production in Shukranagar, Jagatpur and Gunjanagar VDCs in Chitwan, Nepal. The primary data used for the investigation were obtained through the use of questionnaire, focus group discussion and key informant survey. Thirty commercial farmers and ten traders were randomly sampled for the study. Major constraints and influencing factors for green onion production, and marketing system were looked into. The study revealed that seedling raising was the most important problems faced by the off season growers followed by weed problem, lack of crop insurance facility, and diseases and pests. Lack of storage facility was the most important marketing problems due to highly perishable nature of green onion followed by lack of appropriate marketing facilities and fluctuation in the market price. Higher market price was the major influencing factors for green onion cultivation followed by its short duration as compared to bulb production which takes longer duration.