Economics of Production and Marketing of Small Onion in Coimbatore District

Abstract

The study is based on the production and marketing of small onion in coimbatore district. Data were collected by individual questionnaire method from 40 formers and 14 middlemen in Devarayapuram village, Thondamuthur taluk, Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu. The Cobb- Douglas production function was run to identify the significance of labour and capital in the yield of onion. The study identified that the major problems of the farmers is low level of prices, credit sales, rain and lack of government support during price fluctuations.