"BEHAVIOUR OF POMEGRANATE GROWERS TOWARDS DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN NASHIK DISTRICT"
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Date
2001
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Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri.
Abstract
The present investigation was intended to depict the picture of
behaviour of pomegranate growers towards drip irrigation systems in
Nashik district The study was conducted with a view to know the socio
economic characteristics of pomegranate growers and their behaviour
pattern in use of drip irrigation systems, estimate their economics, to find
out the relationship between terms of purchase and size land holdings, to
identify source of information and motives behind adoption of drip units,
to study the management constraints faced by pomegranate growers in
adoption of drip units and suggest remedials.
In all 90 pomegranate growers who had installed drip
irrigation systems for pomegranate were selected from 10 villages for the study The data were collected with the help of well designed and pretested
interview schedule The collected data were processed through primary
and secondary tables and were statistically analysed The statistical test
like the cm-square was used to test the hypotheses and study the
association between paired set of attributes mathematically. Benefit Cost
ratio was also worked out to study the economics of pomegranate
cultivation with various dnp irrigation units. The data were related to
agriculture year 1999-2000
The findings of study revealed that age, education social
participation and annual income had highly significant association with
adoption of drip irrigation systems While type of family and size of family
veve found to be insignificant m adoption of drip irrigation systems
It was also observed that the majority of respondents used
Jam brand of drip irrigation system (45 55 per cent), followed by
EPC (20.00 per cent), Pragati (14 44 per cent, Plastro and Netafem drip
shared equally (10 00 per cent). This was because of more facilities
provided by Jain company compared to other companies in the market
The pomegranate growers also preferred for dripper type irrigation system
instead of micro-tube type irrigation system because of easy handling and
easy cleaning while clogging takes place This shows the management
outlook of pomegranate growers in selection of drip system and type of
drip set
At the overall level, the per hectare total cultivation cost of
pomegranate with drip irrigation was Rs. 137695, while the gross return
was Rs 2,23307 The net profit realised was Rs 85612 The highest net
profit realised (Rs 87634) was in case of Jain type of irrigation system and
lowest was (Rs. 79963) in Ptestro drip irrigation system The overall Benefit Cost was 1 62, while it was highest (1 66) in Jam irrigation
system and lowest (1.57) in EPC irrigation system Among the size groups
of land holdings, the Benefit-Cost ratio was highest in small size group
(1 65) and lowest in large size group (1.55) It shows that intensive
cultivation of pomegranate helped to obtained more returns
The pomegranate growers from the medium and large groups
of holdings preferred to purchase drip irrigation units on cash, while
growers from small size groups of holdings preferred to purchase the same
on credit.
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