Empowerment of tribal farm women through horticultural interventions under NAIP in Southern Rajasthan
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2018
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MPUT, UDAIPUR
Abstract
Women are one of the major productive work forces in Indian economy.
Women perform multiple roles, both in agriculture and home. As per 2011 census,
23.30 per cent women were working as cultivators and 10.04 per cent as agriculture
labourers. More women than men have figured among marginal workers who were
from landless, marginal and small farm families. Women’s work remains outside the
cash sector. She works from dawn to dusk but she has to depend on her male
counterpart for meeting out her financial requirement. As women are being
increasingly seen as an important index for the development of nation, it is necessary
to develop entrepreneurship among women and encourage them to take up
independent income generating activities so that the significant work force of the
country may be utilized more efficiently in the progress of the country.
A six year ambitious agricultural research Programme was launched in India
on 6th July, 2006, which was named as National Agricultural Innovation Project
(NAIP). The project focused on innovations in agricultural technology. It was
expected that project would facilitate an accelerated and sustainable transformation of
the Indian agriculture so that it can support poverty alleviation and income generation.
This was achieved through collaborative development and application of agricultural
innovations by the public organizations in partnership with farmers’ groups, the
private sector and other stakeholders. It is seemed as a prestigious World Bank
assisted project which helped in making Indian Agriculture a profitable
venture.Hence, the present study entitled “Empowerment of tribal farm women
through horticultural interventions under NAIP in Southern Rajasthan” was
taken up with the specific objectives
(i) To study the personal profile of respondents benefitted under NAIP.
(ii) To measure the existing knowledge and adoption level of horticultural interventions
of the tribal farm women.
*Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Extension Education, RCA, Udaipur
**Professor,Department of Extension Education, RCA, Udaipur
(iii) To assess the economic and technological benefits derived by the tribal farm women
beneficiaries through horticultural interventions under NAIP.
(iv) To ascertain the association between personal variables viz., age, education, type of
family, type of family size, social participation, size of land holding, farming
experience, occupation, innovation proneness, cosmopoliteness, extension contacts
and source of information and adoption of horticultural interventions by the
respondents.
(v) To identify the constraints faced by the tribal farm women in adoption of selected
horticultural interventions.
The present study was implemented in four districts of Southern Rajasthan viz-
Banswara, Dungarpur, Sirohi and Udaipur. Out of these four districts, two districts i.e.
Banswara and Dungarpur were selected for present investigation on the basis of
maximum concentration of tribal population. Primary data was collected from 240
respondents in Banswara and Dungarpur district of Southern Rajasthan and then data
was scrutinized, processed, tabulated, classified and analyzed for statistical treatment.
Relevant information was collected through face to face contact method. Different
statistical tests like mean, per cent, mean per cent score, rank, standard deviation, chisquare
test and analysis of variance (‘Z’ test) were used in the data analysis. The
overall study reports the following main findings:
1. The results shows that out of 250 sample respondents, 46.80 per cent tribal
farm women were having medium level of knowledge on Horticulture
interventions under NAIP followed by 30.80 per cent with low and 22.40 per
cent farm women with high level of knowledge on horticulture interventions
under NAIP.
2. The results shows that out of 250 sample respondents, 70.40 per cent tribal
farm women were having medium level of adoption of horticulture
interventions under NAIP followed by 15.00 per cent with high and 14.00 per
cent farm women with low level of adoption of horticulture interventions
under NAIP.
3. The data shows that out of 250 respondents, majority of respondents got
medium level (53.60 %) of economic benefits followed by low (29.60 %) and
high (16.80 %) level of economic benefits due to orchards.
4. The data indicates that out of 250 respondents, 181 (72.60 per cent)
respondents were derived medium technological benefits through horticulture
interventions under NAIP followed by high (13.40 per cent) and low (14.00
per cent) technological benefits.
5. It was also found that education level of the respondents was significantly
associated with adoption of Horticulture interventions under NAIP. Whereas,
age, education, social participation, farming experience, innovation
pronessses, extension contact & source of information were significantly
associated with adoption of Horticulture interventions under NAIP.
6. The respondents of Dungarpur districts faced the constraint due to lack of
money to purchase required requisite (63.33 MPS), require more organic
manure and fertilizers (62.00 MPS), costly seed (60.90 MPS), improved seeds
are not timely available in rural area (60.00 MPS) and unable to bear risk
(56.43 MPS), which were ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th respectively in the
rank hierarchy. Similarly, respondents in Banswara district faced the problem
due to costly seed (63.00 MPS), require more organic manure and fertilizers
(58.00 MPS), improved seeds are not timely available in rural area (57.00
MPS), lack of money to purchase required requisite (56.33 MPS) and
inadequate irrigation facility (58.22 MPS) and supply of inferior quality seed
(52.34 MPS) which were ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th respectively in the
rank hierarchy. Because of above problems respondents were not adapting
improved seed in selected horticulture interventions.
7. District-wise data related to shows that timely unavailability of fertilizers
(70.64 MPS), lack of credit facility (68.50 MPS) and it is risky to invest on
fertilizers (65.54 MPS) in Dungarpur district while, timely unavailability of
fertilizers (66.64 MPS), organic manure is not good enough (64.33 MPS) and
soil condition deteriorate (62.71 MPS) in Banswara district were major
constraint reason for non-adoption of irrigation in selected horticulture
interventions which ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectively.
8. District-wise data showed that in Dungarpur district, compulsion by village
agents and mandi merchants (74.44 MPS), Problems of marketing in the
remote areas (74.00 MPS) and lack of farmers co-operative structure (71.70
MPS) were observed to be major marketing constraints in adoption of selected
horticulture interventions. While, in Banswara district, compulsion by village
agents and mandi merchants (79.00 MPS), absence of crop insurance facility
(67.33 MPS) and lack of transport facility (67 MPS) was the major marketing
constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of selected horticulture
interventions which ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd in rank hierarchy.
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Empowerment of tribal farm women through horticultural interventions under NAIP in Southern Rajasthan
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Damor R.K. And Bairathi R.