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Subject: Extension Education × Author: Gurvinder Singh × Start date: 1975 ×
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    Impact of citrus estates on the beneficiaries in Punjab
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2019) Gurvinder Singh; Bhalla, J.S.
    Horticulture is best growing sector within the agriculture and it contributing towards poverty alleviation, nutritional security. Citrus fruits originated from tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Punjab government established five Citrus Estates in Fazilika, Shri Muktsar Sahib and Hoshiarpur districts to promote citrus crop and facilitate the beneficiaries. This study entitled, “Impact of citrus estates on the beneficiaries in Punjab” was planned to find out the knowledge and adoption of the beneficiaries about citrus production practices, impact and effectiveness of evaluation and to find out the constraints perceived by the beneficiaries. A stratified multistage random sampling design was used was used to select the respondents. From each Citrus Estates, 40 beneficiaries were selected and in this way total 200 beneficiaries were selected. It was found from the study that the age of respondent beneficiaries varied from 27-56 years , maximum 24.5 per cent beneficiaries were educated up to graduation and higher proportion of the total beneficiaries were falling under semi-medium operational land holding. From the entire five Citrus Estates, maximum 35.5 per cent respondent beneficiaries had experience of 5 to 8 years of citrus cultivation and 42.0 per cent of the respondent beneficiaries had 1 to 5 acres area under citrus crop. Study also indicated that the maximum respondent had medium knowledge and medium extent of adoption about recommended citrus production practices. Regarding different aspects of production technology beneficiaries had maximum knowledge about citrus harvesting and maximum extend of adoption regarding citrus plantation whereas minimum knowledge and adoption was found in fruit drop & growth regulators aspects. Technical constraints ranked first with highest average mean score of 2.271among the five constraint areas. It is a need of hour, to make export policy for citrus produce and need to build pack-house and storage facility to promote the crop.
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    A study on the status, prospects and problems of summer mungbean cultivation in Punjab state
    (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, 2014) Gurvinder Singh; Manmeet Kaur
    The study entitled “A study on the status, prospects and problems of summer mungbean cultivation in Punjab state” was undertaken with the objectives to study the present status, prospects and problems of summer mungbean cultivation. Seventy farmers were selected from five clusters on the basis of highest concentration of mungbean growing area. Findings of the study revealed that most of the respondents were in the age group of 38-49 years, educated up to graduation, had medium operational land holding (10-25 acres), had 2-3 family members engaged in summer mungbean cultivation and medium mass media exposure. The experience of more than half of the farmers in summer mungbean cultivation was 2-6 years. Most of the farmers were presently cultivating summer mungbean on an area of 0.5-5.5 acres and following summer mungbean-basmati rice-wheat crop rotation. Majority of the sample farmers cultivated summer mungbean to earn additional income, and were cleaning and drying the summer mungbean produce so as to add value to it. About half of the farmers were willing to keep the area constant under summer mungbean cultivation. The findings of the study showed that farmers were interested in incrementing their produce for value addition as against their present status. Amongst the five different problem areas of summer mungbean cultivation, production related problems ranked first followed by storage and marketing, value addition and processing. On the basis of the findings and farmers suggestions, it was suggested that seeds of recommended varieties should be made easily available to farmers and machinery for value addition of summer mungbean should be subsidized through cooperative societies to promote the cultivation of this crop.