A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION LEVEL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION PRACTICES BY FARMERS IN NORTHERN KARNATAKA
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2004
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BANGALORE
Abstract
"The study was conducted in Bagalkot and Bijapur districts of North
Karnataka during the year 2003-04. The districts were selected keeping
rainfall as criterion. In Bagalkot district, Bagalkot, Bilagi, Badami,
Jamkhandi and Hunagund taluks were selected, while Bijapur, Sindhagi
and Indi were purposively selected from Bijapur district for the present
study, as these taluks were known for their dryland agriculture. From
each district, 40 samples were selected. In all these, over 80 samples were
selected for the study on random basis.
High knowledge of soil and water conservation practices was
observed with 22.50 per cent of the respondents, whereas, medium
knowledge was exhibited by 56.25 per cent of the respondents. About
51.25 per cent of the respondents had fallen in medium adoption category
and 18.75 per cent of the respondents were in high adoption category.
More number of respondents (45%) belonged to the middle age group
followed by old age groups (36.25%).
Majority of the respondents were literate, of which 22.50 per cent
studied upto primary school. High per cent of the respondents had felt
benefits of soil and water conservation practices like ""checks soil and
water erosion"" (56.25%), ""helps in groundwater recharge"" (47.50%),
""increases infiltration rate ofwatef (42.50%), ""increased yield' (8.75%) and
""helps in increasing the cropping intensity"" (7.50%). The problems in
adoption of soil and water conservation practices as expressed by majority
of the respondents (52.50%) were ""lack of long-term loans for land
development activities"" followed by ""inadequate technical guidance"" by the
concerned departments (36.25%), ""high initial cost"" (25.00%), ""lack of
group action"" (23.75%), ""long gestation period"" (22.50%) and ""wastage of
land' (16.00%). Majority (57.50%) of the respondents felt that they need
more technical information on different aspects of soil and water
conservation technologies, financial assistance (40.00%) for maintenance
of soil and water conservation work."
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