Factors influencing adoption of major post-harvest handling practices of large cardamom in Nepal
The ecological settings in the Himalayan hills provide a unique opportunity to the farmers in Nepal to sell their large cardamom in the global market. However, little efforts are made about the adoption of profitable large cardamom post-harvest upgrading practices in the country. This paper examines...
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| author | Rishi Ram Kattel Punya Prasad Regmi Moha Dutta Sharma Yam Bahadur Thapa |
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| description | The ecological settings in the Himalayan hills provide a unique opportunity to the farmers in Nepal to sell their large cardamom in the global market. However, little efforts are made about the adoption of profitable large cardamom post-harvest upgrading practices in the country. This paper examines and discusses about the adoption of important post-harvest practices of large cardamom in the Eastern Himalayan road corridor of Nepal. Semi-structured interviews with 300 large cardamom-producing farmers as well as focus group discussions were conducted in Taplejung district in 2019. A SUR logit was used to examine the factors influencing the adoption of five major post-harvest practices, such as, improved method of drying, curing, cleaning, tail cutting and grading based on size and color. The findings revealed that about one-third of the respondents had adopted improved method of drying whereas about three-fifth of the respondents (62%) adopted curing. Nearly three-fourth (73.3%) of them had followed the practice of cleaning cardamom. On the other hand only less than 5% of respondents reported that they had been adopting the practice of tail (calyx) cutting. The findings also revealed that the adoption of improved method of large cardamom drying was mostly driven by access to credit. Results from an adoption models identified experience, household income from large cardamom, commercial scale of production, risk averse, access to credit, and access to technical services as of positive contributors (p < 0.05) to the adoption of major post-harvest practices of large cardamom. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e00fa65194c04dd1ad3ff40552134f072022-12-21T18:21:06ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Food & Agriculture2331-19322020-01-016110.1080/23311932.2020.17962011796201Factors influencing adoption of major post-harvest handling practices of large cardamom in NepalRishi Ram Kattel0Punya Prasad Regmi1Moha Dutta Sharma2Yam Bahadur Thapa3Agriculture and Forestry UniversityAgriculture and Forestry UniversityAgriculture and Forestry UniversityAgriculture and Forestry UniversityThe ecological settings in the Himalayan hills provide a unique opportunity to the farmers in Nepal to sell their large cardamom in the global market. However, little efforts are made about the adoption of profitable large cardamom post-harvest upgrading practices in the country. This paper examines and discusses about the adoption of important post-harvest practices of large cardamom in the Eastern Himalayan road corridor of Nepal. Semi-structured interviews with 300 large cardamom-producing farmers as well as focus group discussions were conducted in Taplejung district in 2019. A SUR logit was used to examine the factors influencing the adoption of five major post-harvest practices, such as, improved method of drying, curing, cleaning, tail cutting and grading based on size and color. The findings revealed that about one-third of the respondents had adopted improved method of drying whereas about three-fifth of the respondents (62%) adopted curing. Nearly three-fourth (73.3%) of them had followed the practice of cleaning cardamom. On the other hand only less than 5% of respondents reported that they had been adopting the practice of tail (calyx) cutting. The findings also revealed that the adoption of improved method of large cardamom drying was mostly driven by access to credit. Results from an adoption models identified experience, household income from large cardamom, commercial scale of production, risk averse, access to credit, and access to technical services as of positive contributors (p < 0.05) to the adoption of major post-harvest practices of large cardamom.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2020.1796201large cardamompost-harvest practicessur logit |
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| title | Factors influencing adoption of major post-harvest handling practices of large cardamom in Nepal |
| title_full | Factors influencing adoption of major post-harvest handling practices of large cardamom in Nepal |
| title_fullStr | Factors influencing adoption of major post-harvest handling practices of large cardamom in Nepal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Factors influencing adoption of major post-harvest handling practices of large cardamom in Nepal |
| title_short | Factors influencing adoption of major post-harvest handling practices of large cardamom in Nepal |
| title_sort | factors influencing adoption of major post harvest handling practices of large cardamom in nepal |
| topic | large cardamom post-harvest practices sur logit |
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