Marketing cost, margin and price spread of Bt cotton in Beed district of Maharashtra

Abstract

Investigation was made to marketing cost, margin and price spread in Bt cotton. The\rstudy was conducted in the Beed district market for surveying of 20 market intermediaries. Two\rmarketing channel were noticed in sale of Bt cotton viz., Producer-Village merchant-Ginner-Consumer\r(channel-I), Producer-Ginner-Consumer (channel-II). It was observed that per quintal marketing cost\rwas higher in channel –I for grade II i.e. Rs. 1050.70 followed by grade I Rs. 1048.56 and Rs. 1020.52 in\rgrade III and Rs. 997.28 for grade I followed by grade II Rs. 991.23 and Rs. 956.20 in grade III in\rchannel-II, respectively. Producers share in consumer’s rupee was maximum in channel-II i.e. 76.55 per\rcent in grade III followed by grade II (75.60%) and for grade I (74.81%), respectively. Regarding price\rspread in Bt cotton marketing was highest in channel-II Rs. 6200, 6000 and 5800 for grade I, II, III,\rrespectively and in channel-I Rs. 6100, 6000 and 5800 for grade I, II and III, respectively.