VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS OF SAGAR AND SABRI BANANA IN NARSINGDI DISTRICT OF BANGLADESH

Abstract

The present study was designed to measure the value chain analysis of Sabri Banana and Sagar Banana in Narsingdi District of Bangladesh. Primary data were collected from the Banana growing area of Shilmandi and Sadar under Narsingdi district. Thirty farmers of Sagar banana,thirty farmers of sabri banana and thirty traders of both sagar and sabri banana were selected through convenience sampling procedure. Simple descriptive methods were used to analyze the data. Among many cultivars, Sabri and Sagar had been selected for this research work. The major findings of the study revealed that Banana production was profitable. In the production and marketing system of banana, many value chain actors were involved such as Bepari, Arathdar, and retailer. Demographic characteristics of banana farmers were categorized into age, education, farming experience, farm size and family size. In this study sabri banana farmer average age was 39.5 and Sagar banana farmers average age was 41.3 years. Farming experience of sabri Banana farmers was 17.2 and Sagar banana farmer farming experience was 20.93. Farmers of sabri banana sold per dozen TK.59.4 and farmers of Sagar banana sold per dozen TK.54.3. In this study, Cob Douglas Production Function was analyzed to see the effect of different input variables like fertilizer, sucker, laboretc on the production of banana .Farmers total cost of production for sabri banana was TK.241267.8 for per hectare of land. Return from sabri banana was TK. 686408.6.Farmers total cost of production of sagar banana was TK. 239704.7.Return from sagar banana was TK. 532167.2.Total cost for per 6426 dozen sabri banana marketing for arotdar was TK.4650.Arotder of sabri banana revenue per dozen was TK7.7.Different intermediary got profit from banana business but they have some problems too. Lack of different input ,labor cost,lack of training facility, transportation facility and cost etc was some of the main problems. So the producer and marketers gave some suggestions to overcome those problems. Such as good quality sakar, reduced cost of fertilizer, reduced and good transportation facility, availability of market information , storage facility etc.