Cultivation and Marketing of Asparagus racemosus in Terai-Nepal

The work has aimed to explore perception of its cultivation and marketing; find out profit and examine the trend of price per unit, quantity traded and income obtained from Asparagus. After analyzing data, March-April was found to be the suitable months of harvesting and March is the best month for harvesting of cultivated asparagus. Cultivators' HHs have negative attitude towards Asparagus hybrid for cultivation in comparison to Asparagus wild as Asparagus hybrid has limited market and monopoly price, but Asparagus wild has many markets and competitive price. Regarding the profit and trend of marketing of Asparagus wild and hybrid, cultivators' HHs get the profit of NRs 66353.37 per katha from asparagus wild and the profit of only NRs 4610.37 per katha from Asparagus hybrid if all the parts are sold. But they get the profit of NRs 5160.87 per katha from Asparagus wild whereas; undergo loss of NRs 5822.13 per katha from Asparagus hybrid if only roots are sold. So, the high priority of Asparagus wild for cultivation should be given due to the higher profit and price per Kg.