Abstract

Infrastructure plays a vital role in agriculture at every single step such as supply of inputs, sowing of crops and for post harvest management. Investment on infrastructural practices in agriculture must be in a planned manner to avoid post harvest losses and enhances productivity. India is lacking with infrastructure up gradation with respect to storage houses, pack houses, absence of proper supply chain for agricultural inputs. However, the present study has been undertaken to analyze agricultural infrastructure in potato cultivation. The study focuses on to study the impact of infrastructure development in potato cultivation, to study the present condition of agricultural infrastructure in potato cultivation, to evaluate farmer’s satisfaction towards agricultural infrastructure. The data for the present study has been collected by meeting 50 potato cultivators from Chikkamagaluru district with the help of structured questionnaire. It was found that majority of the potato cultivator prefer resource based infrastructure development and strongly agree that agricultural infrastructure leads to high yield.

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