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Subject: Extension Education × Author: Rajesh × End date: 2011 × Start date: 2011 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Awareness and perception of farmers towards weather forecasting advisory services in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2011) Rajesh; Godara, Ashok Kumar
    Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of atmosphere for the future time and a given location. The main advantage of weather forecasting advisory services is to help farmers, maximize profit by decreasing weather related losses and increasing the timeliness of farm production, Indian farmers are still depend on the seasonal rains which are highly variable both in time and space including weather event like drought, flood, heat waves, and tropical storms cyclones severely effects the agriculture production. With this idea in mind present investigation was conducted in purposively selected Hisar from western zone and Kaithal districts from eastern zone of Haryana state with the following objective:- to assess the awareness level of farmers about weather forecasting advisory services, to know the farmers’ perception about weather forecasting advisory services, to find out the constraints associated with the use of weather forecasting advice, o ascertain the impact of weather forecasting advisory services in decision taken in field operation. The study can be concluded that majority of them were in middle to old age groups, belonged to high to medium education status, social participation and extension contact, with high mass-media exposure, risk orientation, irrigation facilities, change proneness and fatalism/ scienticism, having medium socio-economic status. The study shows that near to half of the respondents had negative perception about weather forecasting advisory services. While about, one third of respondents perceived. The aspect wise perception of respondents about weather forecasting advisory service reveals that majority of the respondents were fully agreed farmer.It was found that great majority of the respondents were fully agreed that Radio , TV broadcasting about weather forecast advisory services is useful to the farmers. However, majority of the respondents were fully agreed that telephone weather services will be useful to the farmers if the call made is free and timely, weather forecasting advisory services help farmers in reducing farm losses, weather forecasting is helpful in managing the operation and activity on the farm /home and Weather forecast affects the farmer’s decision. The most of farmers could not understand SMS on mobile due to lack of knowledge’ was considered the most serious constraints followed by weather forecast information is not location specific, due to flexibility in weather condition information is not right at every time’ was third in rank and the problem of weather forecasting is not timely at the time of flood and drought and all the constraints may be minimized by providing guidance to the farmers and by distribution literature and training regarding technicality of weather forecasting advisory services to the farmers. The problem of belief about traditional weather forecast is more powerful than modern weather forecasting in farmers’ view, weather forecasting an advisory service is brief hence can not be understood by majority of farmers and farmers are not able to know the economic benefit of weather forecasts majority of the farmers are not adopting according in weather forecasting advisory services were also some of the serious problems. The majority of the respondents fully were agreed with the statement that the seed sowing process affected on the basis of weather forecasting information change in cultural operation due to weather forecasting information and it also the irrigation schedule. The source of communication of the farmers regarding the weather forecasting advisory services, two of the major indicators of source of communication of the farmers were the credibility and utilization of source of communication regarding weather forecasting advisory services. It was found Television (ranked 1st) , Radio (ranked 2nd) had mostly used by the respondents as credible channel for weather forecasting information while Mobile SMS facilities by CCS HAU, Newspaper were ranked IIIrd and forth in terms of utilization. As for weather forecasting information Internet facilities ranked last alternate of information in view of respondents as credible channel for weather forecasting information.