A STUDY ON INTEGRATED FARMING SYSTEM MODULES FOLLOWED BY FARMERS IN HYDERABAD-KARNATAKA REGION
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2014-07-30
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, RAICHUR
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The study was conducted in purposely selected Raichur and Gulbarga districts of
Hyderabad-Karnataka region of Karnataka to know the extent of awareness, adoption and
comparative performance of different IFS modules at farmers’ field. Raichur district
comprises of 5 taluks and Gulbarga district comprises of 7 taluks. From each taluk 10
respondents were selected based on simple random sampling. Thus, 120 respondents
constituted the sample for the study and data was collected by personal interview method.
The study revealed that, Majority (90.83 %) of the respondents were aware about crop
production + dairy + vegetables, as high as 91.67 per cent of the respondents’ source of
awareness about different IFS modules was agricultural university. With regard to modules
for irrigated conditions, majority of the respondents were aware about crop production + dairy
module. With respect to IFS modules for dryland conditions, majority of the respondents
adopted the crop production + goat rearing + vermicompost model. With regard to IFS
modules for irrigated conditions, crop production + dairy module was adopted by 70.00 per
cent of the respondents.
Majority of the respondents belonged to the middle aged category (between 31 to 50
years), small land holders category and high income group. Majority of the respondents
belonged to medium farming experience category with large size family. Majority of the
respondents belonged to medium scientific orientation category. Cent per cent of the
respondents perceived increased land productivity, maintenance of good soil health,
employment generation and creation of pollution free environment as the major advantages /
benefits of IFS modules. With respect to net returns, in dryland conditions, Crop production +
Sheep + Silvi pasture module recorded higher net returns of Rs. 1,03,375. In irrigated
conditions, with respect to net returns, Crop production + Dairy + Vermicompost unit
recorded highest net returns of Rs. 1,03,850.
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