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ThesisItem Open Access EFFECTIVENESS OF RICE DEMONSTRATION UNDER APART IN JORHAT & SIVASAGAR DISTRICT OF ASSAM(2023) Borgohain, Himadri; Das, A.K.With the motive of long-term agriculture transformation in Assam, Govt. Of Assam started the project “Assam Agribusiness Rural Transformation Project” or APART. The study entitled “Effectiveness of Rice Demonstration under APART in Jorhat and Sivasagar district of Assam” was conducted in Jorhat and Sivasagar district. For measuring effectiveness three dimensions were selected which were change in area under rice cultivation, change in production and productivity and change in income. The extent of adoption of stress tolerant rice varieties and various techniques of crop establishment were also studied. The study revealed that majority of the respondents i.e 61.66 belonged to the middle aged group of 35 – 50 years. More than 3/4th i.e., 87.50% of the respondents were male while only 12.50% of respondents were female.31.6% of respondents had secondary level of education. The findings indicate that majority of the respondents i.e. 53.33% belonged to the medium size family with 5 to 7 members. 34.17% had small land holding of 1-2 hectare followed by 31.66% of respondents with marginal land holding of size less than 1 ha. The majority of 87.50% of respondents had medium level of annual income between Rs 1.97 lakhs to Rs 5.07 lakhs. Based on farming experience it was observed that majority of respondents with 70.83% had medium level of farming experience of 5-14 years. The majority of the respondents (59.16%) had medium level of extension contact. About 58.33% of respondents had medium level of training exposure (2-5 trainings) followed by 24.16% of the respondents had high level of training of more than 5 trainings. 50.00% of the respondents had medium level of exposure to mass media. It was observed that 96.6% of the respondents had fully adopted the STRV’s which were demonstrated to them in the later years. It was observed that majority of 63.79% of the respondents had medium level of adoption for STRV’s and their recommended practices. 21.55% of the respondents had high and 14.65% of the respondents had low level of adoption. It was observed that there was no significant relationship between independents variables and production under rice cultivation. In case of income, there was significant relationship between age of respondents and operational land holding with income from rice cultivation at 5% probability level. Again it was found that at 0.01 probability level there was significant relationship between farming experience and income from rice cultivation. Similarly, age, extension contact, training exposure and mass media exposure had significant relationship with extent of adoption of STRV’s at 5% probability level. Farming experience had significant relationship with extent of adoption at 1% probability level. The major problems faced by farmers were high cost of machines (71.66%), lack of technical knowledge (59.16), high cost of fertilizers (55.83%), Lack of necessary equipment (46.66%), lack of enthusiasm (34.16%), lack of conviction in the new technology (32.5%), unavailability of seeds (28.33%), disease and pest infestation (21.66%), weak extension programme (20.00%), unavailability of local labour (14.16%), lack of awareness about the benefits (10.83%) and damage due to flood (3.33%).
