International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
RS Karangami, SB Bhange and Deepali S Kokate

abstract
In India, grape cultivation is one of the highly remunerative farming enterprises. Grape is India's most important commercial and high-quality fruit crop, accounting for the majority of the country's fresh fruit and vegetable exports to Europe and other areas of the world. The grape cultivation of necessity for high investment right from the establishment of new vineyard. The present study was conducted in Nashik district of Maharashtra state. Two tahsils namely Niphad and Dindori selected purposively for this study on the basis of maximum area under cultivation of grape crop. From each selected tehsil, 12 villages were selected on the basis of higher production of grape crop. Total twenty two villages were selected randomly. From each selected village 12 grape growers were selected from each village making a total sample of 240 farmers. The data were collected through personal interview method. Pesticides are chemical compounds or mixtures of substances with adverse chemical nature and biological activity. The result observed in constraints mainly focus on unavailability of exportable varieties. Looking towards the demand to round shape grape berries in world market, the universities and horticulture department should develop such varieties of grapes which have more demand in the world market.