AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS FOLLOWED BY FARMERS FROM RATNAGIRI DISTRICT OF THE KONKAN REGION

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorKadam, J. R.
dc.contributor.authorDahiphale, Tejashri Pandurang
dc.contributor.otherSawant, P. A.
dc.contributor.otherKshirsagar, P. J.
dc.contributor.otherMhaiske, V. M.
dc.contributor.otherWarawadekar, S. C.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-19T05:53:25Z
dc.date.available2023-01-19T05:53:25Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-12
dc.description.abstractThe study was conducted in Dapoli, Khed and Lanja tahsils of Ratnagiri district of Konkan region. The sample was constituted 120 agro-forestry following farmers drawn from twelve villages. The respondents were interviewed with the help of a specially designed schedule. The exploratory research design was used for the present study. The analysis of data revealed that majority of the respondents were ‘middle’ age, ‘majority’ of respondents had ‘secondary’ and ‘primary’ level of education, ‘marginal’ land holding under agroforestry systems, ‘medium’ group of family size, ‘farming’ major occupation, were having ‘medium’ annual income, had ‘medium’ use of social media, had ‘medium’ level of training received and were ‘medium’ score of sources of information. The data regarding agro-forestry systems revealed that ‘maximum’ no. of the respondents were followed Agri-silvi-pastoral system, were ‘maximum’ no. of the respondent reared livestock combinations, ‘maximum’ respondent followed Mango + Cashewnut trees cropping pattern, in kharif season ‘maximum’ respondent was cultivated rice, Nagli and Vari respectively. In Rabi and summer pulses and vegetables cultivated respectively. ‘medium’ income generation through agroforestry systems were average income generation from Agri-silvi-pastoral + Horti-silvicultural system was Rs. 2,34,64/- had ‘lowest’ employment generation through agroforestry systems, ‘maximum’ family labour used for rice transplanting. The major constraints faced by respondents in agroforestry systems were losses due to wild animals, fluctuation in prices of agricultural commodities, loss due to forest fire, high disease and pest incidence, inadequate clinical services at villages for livestock and poultry. The major suggestions given for farmers should be provided with low-cost mechanical tools and electrical trap to protect their crop from wild animals, to show the film about agro forestry at village to village, literature regarding trees and its planting techniques should be given to the farmers along with the seedlings, animal health services government should be provided at nominal rate, the latest rules and regulations regarding cutting/felling and transportation of the farm forestry produce must be advocated to the villagers either by panchayat or forest department, clinical services should be more accessible to farmers for livestock and poultry, people should be informed about the free supply of seedlings and the placed with time of distribution as well as it should made available at the first rain of the season, government should recruit sufficient number of veterinaries at each panchayat, disseminate the technical and marketing information through radio and television programme in local language, financial support should be made available for small and marginal farmers and long term loan should be provided to them through co-op. societies, create market facilities and where three is no market facilities for small quantity of forest produce forest department should help the farmers to get remunerative prices, agro forestry demonstration plot on farmer's field as well as on Government or Agricultural University farms be organized, to give advice to them about selection of land and planting trees on their farms and people should be motivated to participate in Van Mahotsav programme and to form tree grouters co-operative- societies.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810192560
dc.keywordsExtension Educationen_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.pages159en_US
dc.publisherDr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli.en_US
dc.subExtension Educationen_US
dc.themeAGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS FOLLOWED BY FARMERS FROM RATNAGIRI DISTRICT OF THE KONKAN REGIONen_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleAGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS FOLLOWED BY FARMERS FROM RATNAGIRI DISTRICT OF THE KONKAN REGIONen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
MSc_ADPM-20-2784-Extension Department-Dahiphale-Tejashri-Pandurang_12-Jan-2023-T07171.pdf
Size:
14.29 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
MSc_Extension Department-AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS FOLLOWED BY FARMERS FROM RATNAGIRI DISTRICT OF THE KONKAN REGION-ADPM-20-2784-12-Jan-2023-T07171
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
Thesis