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Department of Agricultural Extension Education, S.V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati-517 502.
Onion is one of India’s most highly watched agricultural commodities. Onion prices have a direct impact on the average person’s consumption basket. After China, India is second in terms of area and production, and third in terms of export. In India, it is grown in an area of 19.14 million hectares with total production of 3112 million tonnes. In India Andhra Pradesh state ranked eighth in area under Onion cultivation. The area under the crop was 44,600 hectares with a production of 7,22,090 metric tonnes during the year 2021-22. The present study was carried out to know the profile of onion farmers in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh over a randomly drawn sample of 120 respondents. The results revealed that majority (68.33%) of the onion farmers are middle age, illiterate farmers (20.00%), with medium level of farming experience (61.67%), small family (58.33%), nuclear family type (90.83%), medium area under onion (55.00%), had medium economic status (70.83%), had medium level of extension contact (65.00%), medium level of institutional participation (60.83%). Further majority of the farmers followed channel-II for marketing is 60.84% and the marketing efficiency was high for channel-I (3.3) as there were less intermediaries in the chain.
KEYWORDS: Onion farmers, Profile, market channels, market efficiency.