AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS FOLLOWED BY FARMERS FROM RATNAGIRI DISTRICT OF THE KONKAN REGION
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2023-01-12
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Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli.
Abstract
The study was conducted in Dapoli, Khed and Lanja tahsils of Ratnagiri
district of Konkan region. The sample was constituted 120 agro-forestry following
farmers drawn from twelve villages. The respondents were interviewed with the help
of a specially designed schedule. The exploratory research design was used for the
present study. The analysis of data revealed that majority of the respondents were
‘middle’ age, ‘majority’ of respondents had ‘secondary’ and ‘primary’ level of
education, ‘marginal’ land holding under agroforestry systems, ‘medium’ group of
family size, ‘farming’ major occupation, were having ‘medium’ annual income, had
‘medium’ use of social media, had ‘medium’ level of training received and were
‘medium’ score of sources of information.
The data regarding agro-forestry systems revealed that ‘maximum’ no. of the
respondents were followed Agri-silvi-pastoral system, were ‘maximum’ no. of the
respondent reared livestock combinations, ‘maximum’ respondent followed Mango +
Cashewnut trees cropping pattern, in kharif season ‘maximum’ respondent was
cultivated rice, Nagli and Vari respectively. In Rabi and summer pulses and vegetables
cultivated respectively. ‘medium’ income generation through agroforestry systems
were average income generation from Agri-silvi-pastoral + Horti-silvicultural system
was Rs. 2,34,64/- had ‘lowest’ employment generation through agroforestry systems,
‘maximum’ family labour used for rice transplanting. The major constraints faced by
respondents in agroforestry systems were losses due to wild animals, fluctuation in
prices of agricultural commodities, loss due to forest fire, high disease and pest
incidence, inadequate clinical services at villages for livestock and poultry. The major
suggestions given for farmers should be provided with low-cost mechanical tools and
electrical trap to protect their crop from wild animals, to show the film about agro forestry at village to village, literature regarding trees and its planting techniques
should be given to the farmers along with the seedlings, animal health services
government should be provided at nominal rate, the latest rules and regulations
regarding cutting/felling and transportation of the farm forestry produce must be
advocated to the villagers either by panchayat or forest department, clinical services
should be more accessible to farmers for livestock and poultry, people should be
informed about the free supply of seedlings and the placed with time of distribution as
well as it should made available at the first rain of the season, government should
recruit sufficient number of veterinaries at each panchayat, disseminate the technical
and marketing information through radio and television programme in local language,
financial support should be made available for small and marginal farmers and long term loan should be provided to them through co-op. societies, create market facilities
and where three is no market facilities for small quantity of forest produce forest
department should help the farmers to get remunerative prices, agro forestry
demonstration plot on farmer's field as well as on Government or Agricultural
University farms be organized, to give advice to them about selection of land and
planting trees on their farms and people should be motivated to participate in Van Mahotsav programme and to form tree grouters co-operative- societies.