PERCEPTION OF FIG FARMERS TOWARDS USEFULNESS OF ATMA PROJECT IN SAURASHTRA REGION 2832

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dc.contributor.advisorN. B. Jadav
dc.contributor.authorHOTHI HARSH SUKHDEVBHAI
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-03T06:41:07Z
dc.date.available2021-07-03T06:41:07Z
dc.date.issued2019-07
dc.description.abstractThe Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) is an autonomous organization registered under the society’s registration act of 1860 with considerable operational flexibility. It is registered society of stakeholders involved in agricultural activities for sustainable agricultural development in the district. It is focal point for integrating research and extension activities and decentralized day to day management of the Public Agricultural Technology System (ATS). As a society, it receives and expands project funds, entering into contracts, agreements and maintaining revolving accounts that can be used to collect fees and thereby recovering operating cost. Hence, the present investigation entitled “Perception of FIG farmers towards usefulness of ATMA project in Saurashtra region” was envisaged with objectives viz., profile of respondents, perception level of FIG farmers towards usefulness of ATMA project, relationship between attributes of respondents and their level of perception, problems faced by FIG farmers in availing advantages of ATMA and suggestions of FIG farmers to get maximum advantages of ATMA. In order to realize the objectives of the study, 120 FIG farmers were selected from 12 different villages of 6 talukas of Amreli, Junagadh and Jamnagar districts by applying multistage simple purposive sampling technique. In respect to personal characteristics, slightly more than three- fifth (62.50 per cent) of respondents belonged to middle age group, 35.83 per cent of respondents belonged to primary school level of education, 58.33 per cent of the respondents had more training received, slightly less than two-fifth (39.17 per cent) had 3-4 family members and 53.33 per cent of the respondents had occupation as farming with allied occupation. As regards to socio-economic characteristics, majority (60.83 per cent) of the respondents were under the category of medium level of annual income, followed by 65.00 per cent of the respondents were with medium size of land holding and 64.17 per cent of respondents had medium level of social participation. In respect to communicational characteristics, 55.83 per cent of the respondents belonged to medium extension participation and 65.00 per cent of respondents had medium mass media exposure. The respondents with relation to psychological aspects, 57.50 per cent of the respondents were from medium level of risk orientation and 65.00 per cent of the respondents had medium level of innovativeness. More than half (53.33 per cent) of FIG farmers had medium level of perception towards usefulness of ATMA Project followed by 27.50 per cent and 19.17 per cent of respondents had high and low level of perception towards usefulness of ATMA Project, respectively. The characteristics of FIG farmers i.e. education, training and extension participation had positive and highly significant relationship with their perception towards usefulness of ATMA project. The characteristics of the respondents like occupation, annual income, social participation, mass media exposure, risk orientation and innovativeness were positively and significantly related with their perception towards usefulness of ATMA project. There was non-significant relationship between perception towards usefulness of ATMA project and size of family and size of land holding of FIG farmers. While age was positively and significantly related with their perception about usefulness of ATMA project. Out of 12 problems identified in availing advantages of ATMA, the most important constraints faced by the FIG farmers were: Non-availability of production inputs at the farmer’s doorstep, Lack of training on improved technologies, Exposure visits to research stations of Gujarat are not organized for all members, The knowledge and information gain during the exposure visit to other states are not applicable in local situation, Political hindrance affecting the selection of beneficiaries Out of 12 suggestions given by FIG farmers to get the maximum advantages of ATMA, the most important suggestions expressed by respondents were: Make the required inputs available at the farmers convenience, Offer training on improved technologies, Need more number of exposure visits, Training on ICT tools should be given for farmers, Focused on need based trainings should be arranged, The number of training programs should be increased.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810170059
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.pages108pen_US
dc.publisherJAU, JUNAGADHen_US
dc.subAgricultural Extensionen_US
dc.themePERCEPTION OF FIG FARMERS TOWARDS USEFULNESS OF ATMA PROJECT IN SAURASHTRA REGION 2832en_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titlePERCEPTION OF FIG FARMERS TOWARDS USEFULNESS OF ATMA PROJECT IN SAURASHTRA REGION 2832en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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