Trends and Market Integration of Kharif Sorghum in Beed District of Maharashtra

Abstract

Sorghum cultivation has declined over the period of time farmer’s turned to production high lucrative cereals such as rice, wheat, corn, pulses and competitive crops like oilseeds and cotton. The District Statistic Board of  Beed has reported that the cultivation area for Kharif Sorghum in the year 2020 to 2021 were 7194 hectors and 481 kg per hector respectively. The time series data of sorghum arrivals and prices were collected from APMCs Beed, Dharur and Parli during the period 2001-2020 to study the growth and market integration of selected markets.  The trends and annual compound growth rate in arrivals and prices of Kharif Sorghum was calculated by using linear and exponential form respectively where as Market integration was worked out by estimating Bivariate correlation analysis. The present study reported that Beed market has positive annual growth rate, while in Dharur and Parli markets has negatively significant annual growth rate in Kharif Sorghum arrivals. Beed, Dharur and Parli markets showed positive and non-significant growth rate in prices of Kharif Sorghum. The said study also revealed that there was strong association of sorghum prices among the selected markets.