ADOPTION OF PRODUCTION RECOMMENDATIONS OF MAIZE IN MAHMUD I RAQI DISTRICT OF KAPISA PROVINCE OF AFGHANISTAN
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Date
2018
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Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University
Abstract
Maize crop occupies an important position in the world and Afghanistan both
in the area and production as it is consumed in different ways in comparison with
wheat and rice. However the productivity of maize in Afghanistan is very poor
because of non-adoption of latest production recommendations for different reasons.
Hence this study was undertaken.
Ex-post-facto research design was followed in the present study. Mahmud-iraqi
district of Kapisa province was purposively selected for the study as the
researcher hails from the same district and also maize is growing extensively in this
district. From the selected district four villages were selected and from each village 30
respondents were selected by following simple random sampling, making a total of
120 respondents. The data were collected by personal interview method through
structured interview schedule. Appropriate statistical procedures were employed to
analyze and interpret the data.
The analysis of profile characteristics of the farmers indicated that majority of
the farmers engaged in maize cultivation are, young , illiterate, small farmers with
medium farming experience, mass media exposure, extension contact, social
participation, scientific orientation, economic orientation, innovativeness,
achievement motivation and deferred gratification.
Majority of the farmers had medium extent of adoption of production
recommendations of maize.
Correlation analysis revealed that the selected independent variables viz.,
farming experience, mass media exposure, extension contact, social participation,
scientific orientation, economic orientation, innovativeness, achievement motivation
and deferred gratification had positively significant relationship, whereas age and
education were having negative and significant relationship, and farm size had nonsignificant
relationship with the extent of adoption of production recommendations of
maize.
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Inadequate extension services, as the major constraint, followed by difficulty
in getting loans, lack of improved seed or hybrids, shortage of extension personnel,
High cost of inputs, lack of training programmes, illiteracy, non availability of
fertilizers in correct time and quantities, lack of awareness about latest technologies,
non availability of technologies for small farms, poor access to information sources,
lack of credit facilities, lack of ICTs, lack of suitable farm implements and machinery,
and lack of drudgery reduction technologies were the major problems encountered by
the respondents in the adoption of production recommendations of maize.
Provision of micro credit followed by provision of agricultural loans,
provision of high yielding varieties and hybrids, availability of suitable farm
implements, supply of fertilizers in correct time and quality, provision of extension
services, provision of agricultural subsidies, provision of training to farmers in latest
technologies, increase farm mechanization by custom hiring of farm machinery,
improved access to agricultural information sources, increased efficiency of extension
staff, formulation of new agricultural policy, formation of farmer cooperatives,
development of technologies for small farm and availability of ICTs, were the
suggestions perceived by the respondents to overcome the problems in the adoption of
production recommendations of maize.
A suitable strategy has been developed keeping in view the results obtained in
the study and discussions held with the stakeholders in the study.
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