An Exploratory Study of The Impact of Farm Mechanization on Women Labor Replacement in Paddy Cultivation
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1986
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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural Univesity, Hisar
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This Study Was conducted in randomly selected two districts i.e. Karnal and Kurukshetra out of four districts which we extensively under paddy cultivation. Karnal block from Karnal district and Thanesar block from Kurukshetra district was selected purposely with the criteria that the farmers owned more than 10 acres of land holding Two villages Umri and Mirzapur form Thanesar block and Kunjpura and Mohammadpur village from Karnal block were selected purposely. A proportionate sample of 200 respondents drawn from all the four villages. It was found that most of the farmers were been the age group o:t 26-50 years, illiterate, had joint type o.:f families and had family size of 5 to 10 members, belonged to middle caste, had cultivation as the mam occupation and had 11-15 acres oi land holding. Most of the farmers never participated in any social organisation Among the three sources viz; locality, cosmopolitan and mass media; locality sources were most preferred by the respondents. Among locality sources, progressive farmers were the most preferred sources to motivation. Most of the respondent ts were having high willingness to continue with mechanization.
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