ACCESSIBILITY OF IMPROVED ISABGOL (Plantago ovata Forsk). CULTIVATION TECHNOLOGY TO THE FARMERS IN SANCHORE PANCHAYAT SAMITI OF JALORE DISTRICT (RAJ.)

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2005
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MPUAT, Udaipur
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In Rajasthan Isabgol is mainly grown in Jalore, Barmer, Pali, Jaisalmer and Chittorgarh district. Jalore is one of the chief Isabgol growing districts of the state. The crop is grown in 56,180 hectares area with production of 41129 tonnes seeds (Vital Statistics, 2002-03). This district ranked first in production of Isabgol. The climatic condition of Jalore district is most favourable for cultivation of Isabgol. Whereas, the productivity of this crop is low in comparison with estimates of the scientists. The production and productivity of Isabgol can be increased by the way of full adoption of Isabgol cultivation technology by the farmers. Keeping the above facts in view, the present investigation entitled “Accessibility of Improved Isabgol (Plantago ovata Forsk.) Cultivation Technology to the Farmers in Sanchore Panchayat Samiti of Jalore district (Rajasthan)” was undertaken with following specific objectives. (xi) To assess the knowledge level of farmers about Isabgol cultivation technology. (xii) To find out the extent of adoption of improved Isabgol cultivation practices among the farmers. (xiii) To know the opinion of farmers towards the cultivation of Isabgol in the study area. (xiv) To see the association between selected personal characteristics i.e. age, education, size of land holding, income level, family size & type and adoption of improved Isabgol cultivation technology. (xv) To identify the constraints being faced by the respondents in adoption of Isabgol cultivation technology. The present study was purposively conducted in Sanchore Panchayat Samiti of Jalore district of Rajasthan. Five villages were selected on the basis of maximum area under Isabgol crop from identified Panchayat Samiti. For selection of respondents, 24 Isabgol growers (8 marginal, 8 small and 8 large farmers) were randomly selected from each identified village. Thus, in all 120 respondents were included in the sample of study. Data were collected with the help of interview schedule developed for this study purpose through face to face contact method. Different statistical tests like mean, mean percent score, rank, standard deviation and analysis of variance were used in the analysis of data. The overall study reports the following main findings: The study indicated that majority of respondents (42.50%) possessed medium level of knowledge about improved Isabgol cultivation technology. While, 32.50 and 25.00 per cent respondents reported high and low level of knowledge regarding Isabgol cultivation technology. It was further revealed that the extent of knowledge in marginal farmers was from 42.22 to 90.75 per cent, in small farmers it was from 43.72 to 90.75 per cent. Whereas, in case of large farmers the extent of knowledge was observed to be from 55.00 to 96.00 per cent in all improved practices of Isabgol cultivation technology. The study also revealed that there was significant difference between small, marginal and large farmers with respect to possess knowledge about improved Isabgol cultivation practices. It was observed that majority of respondents (45%) were in the medium adoption group. While, 30.00 and 25.00 per cent farmers were in the low and high adoption group, respectively. It was further observed that the extent of adoption in marginal farmers was 20.00 to 87.50 per cent, in small farmers it was from 21.66 to 76.73 per cent, while in case of large farmers the extent of adoption was 31.66 to 94.16 per cent in all improved Isabgol cultivation practices. Further, it was found that there was non-significant difference between all three categories of farmers with respect to adoption of Isabgol cultivation practices. The study indicated that 66.66 per cent respondents had moderately favourable opinion towards cultivation of Isabgol. Whereas, 20.84 and 12.50 per cent respondents possessed most favourable and least favourable opinion about Isabgol cultivation, respectively. The study further revealed that most of the Isabgol growers agreed with the statements like “the cultivation of Isabgol is more advantageous than other cereal and cash crops”, “all the categories of farmers may cultivate the Isabgol crop” and “cost of cultivation is less of this crop” with MPS 91.87, 80.20 and 70.62, respectively. While, the respondents were least favourable opinion about the statement entitled “soil in area is less suitable of its cultivation” with MPS 16.45. This statements was expressed at the lowest in the opinion hierarchy by the respondents. The non-significant association was found between education, income, land holding, family type and size and level of adoption about improved Isabgol cultivation practices. It means that these personal variables were not associated with the level of adoption of Isabgol cultivation practices. While, age of respondents was associated with level of adoption of improved Isabgol cultivation practices in the study area. It was found that non-availability of improved seeds, irregular availability of electricity for water lifting pump, shattering losses due to unfavourable weather conditions, timely support price not declared by the government and lack of processing units in the area were some of the important constraints expressed by the farmers in adoption of improved Isabgol cultivation technology. It was further observed that there were non-significant variations in constraints perceived by the marginal, small and large categories of farmers in the adoption of improved Isabgol practices.
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ACCESSIBILITY OF IMPROVED ISABGOL (Plantago ovata Forsk). CULTIVATION TECHNOLOGY TO THE FARMERS IN SANCHORE PANCHAYAT SAMITI OF JALORE DISTRICT (RAJ.)
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Chandra and Sharma, 2005
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