An study about factors responsible for the Post-harvest losses of soybean in Sehore district of M.P

India is blessed with diverse agro-ecological conditions ideally suited for growing nine annual oilseed crops. Soybean is the second largest oilseed crop in India next only to groundnut. In soybean production system, at all stages of operations the post-production losses occur. Keeping the importance of post harvest of losses of soybean, the present investigation was conducted with the specific objectives to examine the factors responsible for post harvest losses of soybean. The present study was confined to Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh. The Sehore district purposively selected for study because, this district is one of the important soybean growing tracts in the state. Multi stage stratified random sampling technique was used for drawing a sample for the present study. The fitted regression equation explained 98.9 per cent of variation in post harvest losses of soybean was due to inclusion of these 6 independent factors. The f-ratio was 401 there by indicating good fit of the function. The results of this regression analysis clearly indicated that the size of land holding, area of soybean, marketable surplus and process with manually, bullock or through machinery were found to positive influence of post harvest losses. On the other hand, number of family worker and level of education of respondents were found to negative influence of post harvest losses. Public awareness campaigns must be implemented in order to increase awareness of the costs and implication of losses after harvest/production.