A STUDY ON AGRICULTURAL RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY THE FARMERS OF EASTERN DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA
| dc.contributor.advisor | SURESHA, S. V | |
| dc.contributor.author | VIDYADHARA, B. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-09T08:18:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-09T08:18:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-08-20 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present study was conducted in the year 2013-14 in Bengaluru, Chickballapura and Tumkur districts of eastern dry zone of Karnataka to study the knowledge and adoption levels of the farmers to manage the risks in agriculture. Ex-post facto research design was employed to elicit the data from 120 respondents. Major findings were; more than half (53.33 %) of the farmers had medium level of knowledge and less than half (44.17 %) of the farmers had medium level of adoption on risk management strategies in agriculture. Land holding, annual income, scientific orientation and innovativeness by the respondents had significant association with the knowledge and adoption of risk management strategies at 1 per cent level whereas, social participation, cosmopoliteness, training undergone, extension contact and extension participation had significant association at 5 per cent level with both knowledge and adoption. Private agency representatives were found to be most preferred information source by the farmers.Production risk is the major risk faced by the farmers. Wrong methods of plant protection measures followed by increased cost of cultivation and inputs, pest and disease attacks and uneven rainfall distribution, insufficient market knowledge were the factors responsible for different risks in agriculture. To overcome the different types of risks farmers suggested use of pest and disease resistant varieties, advance crop loans from the agencies, adoption of crop insurance and contract farming, use of market information. Hence, the department of agriculture, developmental agencies and other private agencies need to encourage the adoption of above suggested risk mitigating techniques. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | TH-11199 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810028065 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 201 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU | en_US |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Extension | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | A STUDY ON AGRICULTURAL RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ADOPTED | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | A STUDY ON AGRICULTURAL RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY THE FARMERS OF EASTERN DRY ZONE OF KARNATAKA | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |