Survey Data on Farmers Awareness, Perception level towards futures market

Price risk is one of the major source of risk faced by all farmers. This data set captures the information sources used by the farmers for taking pricing decisions. A survey was carried out with 314 Chillies farmers at Ramanathapuram District of TamilNadu, 383 Turmeric Cultivators in the Erode District of TamilNadu and 221 Cardamom growers in Theni District of TamilNadu. The awareness level and perception towards commodity futures market and farmers preference towards usage of marketing alternatives in selling their produce were recorded in the dataset. The dataset is in MS-Excel format.