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Potato is one of the most important cash crops of the country in a place of pride in the vegetable kingdom. The present study on farm structure, cropping pattern, cropping intensity was conducted in Campiereganj block of Gorakhpur district of eastern Uttar Pradesh. The district was selected purposively. 60 farmers were selected by simple random sampling method. There are 28 marginal 18 small, 8 medium and 6 large farmers from five selected villages of the one block of the district. The farm level data and required information of potato growing farmers pertaining to crop year 2019-2020. The average size of holding at the overall level for all the groups worked out 2.02 hectare. On an average, area in Kharif season was observed to be 1.94 ha, Rabi season 1.86 ha and zaid season 0.072 ha. Overall area under potato was observed to be 0.841 ha./farm The cropping intensity at the overall level was worked out 192.82 percent. It was highest in marginal size was (194.23 percent) followed by small (193.80 percent), medium (192.20 percent) and large (191.07 percent), respectively. At overall per farm total value of farm implements and machinery was observed to be Rs.365012.70. At overall level, livestock value in farm was worked out Rs.66182.92. On overall farm per farm investment was positively related with holding size.