A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF FARMERS ABOUT SOIL HEALTH CARD IN MANDYA DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
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2019-08-08
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
The present study was carried out during 2018-19 to analyse the knowledge and attitude
level of farmers about Soil Health Card (SHC). Out of 120 soil health card holders 60 farmers
were selected from each Mandya and Maddur taluks of Mandya district. The respondents were
randomly selected for the study. Data was collected using a pre-tested interview schedule. A
larger number of the farmers (49.16%) had medium level of overall knowledge regarding SHC,
while 27.50 and 23.33 per cent of the farmers had high and low level of overall knowledge
regarding SHC, respectively. It was also found that a majority of farmers (80.00%) were having
favourable to more favourable attitude towards SHC.
Education, achievement motivation, management orientation, scientific orientation,
cosmopoliteness, mass media exposure, risk orientation, extension agency contact and extension
participation of farmers had significant to highly significant association with their knowledge
and attitude towards SHC. Around 70 and 72 per cent of the variation in the knowledge and
attitude level of farmers respectively was explained by all the 14 independent variables selected
for the research study. Delay in distribution of soil health cards, fertilizer calculations are not
given in SHC, difficulty in following the soil test based results, illiteracy of farmers, lack of
awareness regarding method of soil sampling and inadequate follow-up by extension agency
were the major problems faced by the farmers.