Volume 20 No 20 (2022)
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AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF CASHEW NUT PRODUCTION IN ARIYALUR DISTRICT, TAMILNADU
K. Dhivya and Dr. S. Kalaiselvi
Abstract
Cashew being a livelihood providing crop is widely being cultivated in India. Tamil Nadu contributes significantly to the national level production of Cashew, analysed and reported in this study from its humble beginning as a crop intended to check soil erosion, cashew has emerged as a major foreign exchange earner next only to tea and coffee. Cashew nut is one of the important nuts grown in the world and ranked first. Among various nuts such as hazelnuts, almonds, etc., cashew nut enjoys an unenviable position and it is an unavoidable snack in all important social functions especially in the western countries. India is the largest area holder of this crop and stands 2nd in production next to Vietnam. Cashew nut is being cultivated in Tamil Nadu in 142 thousand hectares with annual cashew production of 70000 tonnes during 2016-17. In Tamil Nadu, the Ariyalur district has highly diverse agro-climatic conditions and most backward peoples, which grant the potential for a remarkable agricultural production of a great diversity of crops. The traditional food crops such as paddy, groundnuts and sorghum were predominant and met the livelihood and food security of the family. Later these crops have been replaced by a single cash crop namely Cashew nut.
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Agricultural, Cultivated, Livelihood, Production,
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