A Profilistic Study on Awardee Farmers in North Karnataka
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Date
2011
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
The present study was conducted in the year 2010-11 in North Karnataka with
a sample size of 80 farmers, constituting 40 farmers awarded by KSDA and 40 nonawardee
(other) farmers were randomly selected for comparison. The data was
collected with the help of structured interview schedule.
The profile analysis of respondents revealed that, majority of awardee farmers
belonged to middle age category, educated upto PUC, medium land holding, high
income category, high farming experience, high mass media utilization, high
extension contact, high risk orientation, high achievement motivation, high economic
motivation, high innovativeness and high management orientation category. Whereas,
majority of non-awardee farmers were also middle aged, had education upto middle
school, belonged to semi medium income category, low mass media utilization,
medium extension contact, low economic motivation, low economic motivation and
low management orientation category.
The results indicated that, the productivity level of awardee farmers in respect
of sugarcane (220t/ha), paddy (98.68 qt/ha), maize (91.96 qt/ha), kharif jowar (47.01
qt/ha) and with respect to various crops in general was higher than the non-awardee
farmers. The findings also revealed that, majority of awardee farmers adopted the
crop enterprises like; agriculture-horticulture-forestry-forage crops-dairy-poultrysheep/
goat rearing-vermicompost. Further the awardee farmers adopted the mixed
cropping patterns like redgram+blackgram, maize+bengalgram and greengram+jowar.
The major constraints faced by awardee farmers were the problem of price
fluctuation, lack of guidance in time by extension staff, non availability of labour.
Whereas, cent per cent of non-awardee farmers facing the problems of nonavailability
and high cost of labour, high cost of inputs like seeds, fertilizers,
pesticides, price fluctuation and transportation and marketing.
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Agricultural Extension Education