Abstract
Considering the importance of ‘marketable surplus’ as it determines the volume of the ‘marketed surplus’ in the particular area , The data was collected from ten villages in two tahsils in Amravati district in Maharashtra . 15 farmers belonging to different land holding groups and who have raised jowar crop during the year 2017-18 were selected. As such total 150 farmers from all these 10 villages which have grown jowar were selected. This research study revealed that, the highest quantity of jowar was required by farmers for domestic needs (dietic requirement) , which is followed by feeds , payment of wages in kind, baluta payment and old payment respectively. An average per family requirement in all land holding group taken together ranged as 2.09 quintals for domestic needs, 0.35 quintals for feeds, 0.34 quintals for payment of wages in kind , 0.31 quintals for baluta payment, 0.18 quintals for old payment respectively . The marketable surplus of jowar was seen rising as the size of land holding increased. The marketable surplus of jowar was in order of 111.00, 195.00, 338.50, 685.50 and 894.00 quintals in respect of marginal, small, semi-medium, medium, and large sized land holding groups respectively. The overall observations revealed that , the marketable surplus of all farmers taken together, in the study area was substantially high i e 87.22% of total production and therefore the marketed surplus was also considerably better as it comes to 63.73% of total produce . It is concluded that, higher the size of land holding and higher the rate production, , higher is the marketable surplus of selected crop. Irrespective of size of land holding , the rate of marketable in respect of jowar can be increased through intensive farm management practices .