TY - JOUR AU - Chaudhari, D. J. AU - Singh, Narendra PY - 2021/05/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Marketing of sweet jelly seeds of palmyra fruit: A study covering the tribal region of South Gujarat, India JF - Journal of Plantation Crops JA - JPC VL - 49 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.25081/jpc.2021.v49.i1.7053 UR - https://updatepublishing.com/journal/index.php/JPC/article/view/7053 SP - 67-71 AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">Palmyra is a naturally occurring vegetation in Gujarat’s southern region, spread randomly overall soil and land types. The major produce utilized from palmyra palm for a livelihood by the tribal community, contributing considerably to their income, is through sales of the immature soft jelly seed nuts of the fruit called “<em>galeli</em>”. The present investigation was carried out to study the marketing cost, margin, and price spread in <em>galeli</em> marketing. Primary data for the period initiating from 2015-16 to 2017-18 were pooled from 50 palmyra palm growers selected randomly representing five tribal villages of Mahua taluka of Surat district in the South Gujarat region. Two marketing channels <em>viz.,</em> Channel-I: producer-consumer and Channel-II: producer - retailer - consumer were observed, and the marketing cost incurred on <em>galeli</em> marketing in these channels was worked out, which was <strong>`</strong>51.64 and 33.94 per hundred <em>galeli,</em> respectively. The highest producer’s share in consumer’s rupee was worked out in channel-I. The study showed that the major constraint faced by 78 per cent of the palmyra palm growers in the marketing of <em>galeli</em> was the poor functioning of the climber equipment and non-remunerative prices for <em>galeli</em> in the local market.</p> ER -