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Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola

Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola was established on 20th October, 1969 with its head-quarter at Akola. This Agricultural University was named after the illustrious son of Vidarbha Dr. Panjabrao (alias Bhausaheb) Deshmukh, who was the Minister for Agriculture,Govt. of India. The jurisdiction of this university is spread over the eleven districts of Vidarbha. According to the University Act 1983 (of the Government of Maharashtra), the University is entrusted with the responsibility of agricultural education, research and extension education alongwith breeder and foundation seed programme. The University has its main campus at Akola. The instructional programmes at main campus are spread over in 5 Colleges namely, College of Agriculture, College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, College of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Post Graduate Institute. At this campus 4 degree programmes namely B.Sc.(Agri.) B.Sc. (Hort.), B.Sc. (Forestry) and B.Tech. (Ag. Engg.) , two Master’s Degree Programmes viz. M.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Tech. (Agri.Engg.) and Doctoral Degree Programmes in the faculties of Agriculture and Agril. Engineering are offered. The University has its sub-campus at Nagpur with constituent College, College of Agriculture which offers B.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Sc.(Agri.) degree programmes. The Nagpur Campus is accomplished with a garden, surrounded by its natural beauty and a well established Zoo which attract the general public and visitors to the city. A separate botanic Garden is being maintained on 22 hectares with a green house for the benefit of research workers. In addition there are 2 affiliated grant-in-aid colleges and 14 private non-grant-in-aid colleges under the umbrella of this University A Central Research Station is situated at the main Campus which caters to the need of research projects undertaken by Crop Scientists of the principle crops of the region are Cotton, Sorghum, Oilseeds and Pulses.

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Author: MEENA, SUNIL KUMAR × Start date: 2019 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    ADOPTION BEHAVIOUR OF FARMERS ABOUT PRADHAN MANTRI FASAL BIMA YOJANA
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2019-07-02) MEENA, SUNIL KUMAR; Wakle, Dr. P. K
    The present study entitled "Adoption Behaviour of farmers about Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)” was conducted in Washim district of Maharashtra state. For present study, respondents were selected by using random sampling method. The main objectives of the study were to study the Adoption behaviour of the framers, the constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of scheme by using exploratory design of social research with data were collected by personally interviewing with help of presented and well-structured interview schedule and data were subjected to appropriate statistical analysis. The score was assigned to measure independent and dependent variables and simple per cent was worked out to describe the characteristics of respondents. Coefficient of correlation was worked out to find the relationship between the variables. The salient findings of the present study revealed that, 62.50 per cent of the respondents belonged to middle age category with high school level education (31.67%), Majority of the respondents i.e. 40.00 per cent had possessed semi medium category of land holding up to 2.01 to 04.00 ha, Majority the respondents i.e. 46.67 per cent had occupation agriculture (Farming). Majority the respondents i.e. 35.00 per cent of respondents annual income had between Rs 100001/- to 150000. Majority (83.33 %) of the farmers belonged to Kharif cropping pattern category Majority, i.e. 72.50 per cent of the respondents had medium level of sources of information, Majority, of the respondents had medium innovativeness (64.17 %), and Majority of the respondents had medium level of risk orientation (67.50%). Majority of the respondents had medium level of knowledge about Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (72.50 %), Majority i.e. 65.83% of the respondents belongs to moderately level of attitude towards Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. There was selected one variable for study i.e. adoption Behaviour of farmers. This have calculated three components viz, Awareness, Interest and Adoption. Majority of respondents 52.50 per cent medium level of adoption behaviour about Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana. As regard awareness had 65.83 per cent of medium level, Majority of respondents of 53.33 per cent had medium category and adoption of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in soybean crop 52.50 per cent of respondents had high level category. For relation analysis it was inferred that, the socio-economic communicational and psychological characteristic like Education, farming experience, cropping pattern, innovativeness and knowledge to found positive and significant relationship with adoption behaviour of farmers about Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana at 0.05 per cent. Sources of information, Risk orientation and attitude to found positive and significant relationship with adoption behaviour of farmers about Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima yojana.at 0.01 per cent probability Majority of respondents constraint faced was 68.33 per cent Unavailability of insurance agent at village level followed by How to measure/ assess loss (65.00 %) Problem of improper reporting in case of losses (60.00 %), Delay in payment of insurance claims (52.50 %), Local government staff not popularizing scheme (45.00 %) and Rate of premium is very high (41.67 %).