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Subject: Extension Education × Author: Ramesh Shankar Prasad × End date: 2022 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Scientific Rationale and Farmers Perception of Indigenous Agricultural Technologies in Ranchi District
    (Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, 1995) Ramesh Shankar Prasad; R. P. Singh" Ratan"
    There were significant differences between male and female respondents with respect to their education occupation and size of holding. Majority of the respondents of both the saxes were tribal old in age illiterate and engaged in cultivation having marginal size of holdings. The respondents farming systems were rice based followed by millets in food crops citrus and guava in fruits crops and cow, poultry and goat rearing in livestock .Mixed cropping and intercropping emeraged as major cropping patterns. Majority of the respondents were conserved to be practicing traditional/indigenous agricultural technologies. Altogether 48 indigenous agricultural technologies were identified and documented. The farmers and scientists perceptions of selected indigenous agricultural technologies were almost similar on the three attributes separately for about 50 percent of selected indigenous technologies (41.67% for profitability, 45.83% for practicability and 54.17 % for simplicity). However there were wide variations in the perceptions of the two categories of respondents on the three attributes simultaneously. Fifty per cent of selected were perceived as high for their overall performance by both the categories of respondents .The two categories of respondents had difference in their perceptions for the overall performance of rest 50 per cent of the selected indigenous technologies. Majority of the selected indigenous agricultural technologies (85.41) were considered to be rational by the scientists. Majority of the selected indigenous agricultural technologies (75) were recommended by the scientists for their continuation by the farmers. Majority of the Scientists matched 58.33 per cent of indigenous agricultural practices almost as such with their corresponding scientific technologies and suggested specific scientific technologies only for 41.67 per cent of indigenous technologies.