Knowledge and Attitude of Farmers towards Soil Health Cards in Nagaur District of Rajasthan
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2022-09-06
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Agriculture University, Jodhpur
Abstract
Soil and water are considered as the back bone of agriculture because soil
health plays vital role to ensure sustainable agricultural production. The main causes
of deterioration of soil fertility in most of the states in India are application of
unbalanced fertilizer, inadequate organic matter, and lack of restoration of declining
micro and secondary nutrients. This is the alarm of nature that the soil health should
be tested regularly to ensure balanced nutrients application in the soil. As per previous
researches the plant requires 17 nutrients for growth. SHC are advising farmers on the
fertilizers and their quantities they should apply, and also the soil amendments to get
optimum yields.
Research study entitled “Knowledge and Attitude of Farmers towards Soil
Health Cards in Nagaur District of Rajasthan” was undertaken to study the knowledge
level of farmers towards soil health cards, to measure the attitude level of farmers
towards soil health cards and relationship between selected independent variables and
attitude of respondents towards soil health cards. The study also emphasized to
identify the constraints faced by the soil health cards holders.
The study was conducted in two villages of two block of Nagaur district with
120 respondents. The farmers were interviewed personally by a well-structured
interview schedule. The data was coded, tabulated and analyzed by using suitable
statistical tools.
The profile of the farmers revealed that majority of the farmers were from
middle age group, and had agriculture as main occupation. Most of them were
educated middle school level of education, categorized under medium category of
land holding, were from medium annual income category, medium level of mass
media utilization, medium level of extension contacts and were associated with one
organization as means of social participation.
The study also revealed that majority of respondents possessed medium level
of knowledge about soil health cards. Aspect wise maximum knowledge was about
“general information about soil health card” and “information regarding soil
sampling” while minimum knowledge was reported in “Advantages of soil health
card” and “Information regarding nutrient status”.
The results shows that majority of the farmers were found to have favourable
attitude towards soil health cards. Farmer had most favourable attitude towards the
statements like “I trust that SHC is useful scheme for farmers welfare” and “I believe
that SHC provides information about deficient nutrients as well as excess nutrients”
and less favourable attitude towards statements such as “I believe that SHC scheme is
a blessing for the farmers” and “I believe that SHC scheme is not useful for illiterate
farmers”.
The education, occupation, size of land holding, income and social
participation, mass media utilization, extension contact were found to be positive and significant and age was found to have negative significant association with the
attitude level of farmers about soil health card.
The constraints “Delay in distribution of SHC” and “Illiteracy of farmers
about the SHC”, “Sometimes recommended quantity of fertilizers is not available in
the market” were perceived as the most and least severe constraints, respectively.
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Bera, Antima 2022. Knowledge and Attitude of Farmers towards Soil Health Cards in Nagaur District of Rajasthan. M.Sc. Thesis, College of Agriculture, Agriculture University, Jodhpur