A study about problems that farmers face in trading Agri products to economic centers (With special reference of Dambulla Dedicated Economic Center)

Abstract

Agriculture often appears to be one of the most difficult industry when it comes to trading agri products are concerned. The present study tries to find out the main proble that farmers face in trading agri products to Dambulla economic center? There are some other sub questions such as Do farmers take truthful fruitfully economic benefit in trading their agri products? Does the income of the farmers is cover only their marginal cost? What are the best media that rural farmers can use to transport their agri products to economic center and the success of recently launched plastic packing concept to transport agri products from rural areas? The key objective is identifying the main problems that farmers face in trading agri products to economic centers. The specific objectives are identifying does farmer’s income is only covered their marginal cost. Identify the best media that rural farmers can use to transport agri products to economic centers. Purposive sampling method is used to select the sample. The sample size is fifty farmers. Interviewing method with using questionnaire as a sub letter used to collect data. The logistic regression method and multiple regressions used to analyze data. Further, Isoquant curve analyzing also used to analyze data. The study derived some conclusions. Farmers in rural areas incuding price fluctuations, middlemen exploitation, storing problems, transporting problems such as rising fuel price and lack of suitable transportation media, packing difficulties and incomplete knowledge of farmers about the market. The income of farmers only use to fulfill their basic needs. The recently launched plastic packing concept also not a success step to transporting agri products. Hence, regular trading process is current necessity. So, government and non-governmental organizations must take to avoiding these problems in process of agri trading of farmers in rural areas. Government should promote the rural farmers. Because responsible of protecting Sri Lankan historical agriculture system. It is an important for sustainable development.