SUSTAINABILITY OF CHICKPEA FARMERS IN ADOPTING Y.S.R. FREE CROP INSURANCE SCHEME IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
| dc.contributor.advisor | V. SITARAMBABU | |
| dc.contributor.author | KATARI AYODHYA RAMAIAH | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T16:25:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T16:25:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-11-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Crop insurance provides the financial support to the farmers in the events of failure of crops due to natural calamities, pests and diseases. It stabilizes income of farmers during various uncertainties which farmer encounters during production and marketing of crop. Y.S.R Free Crop Insurance Scheme was launched on December 2020, is the crop insurance scheme currently availing in Andhra Pradesh without any premium charged from farmers and covers around 15 lakh farmers, claiming ₹ 1820.23 crores for around 56 lakh hectares of land covering around 22 notified crops. Andhra Pradesh is one of the leading states in chickpea cultivation with an area of 0.46 million hectares, production of 0.56 million tonnes and productivity of about 1218 kg/ha. Among 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh, Prakasam district occupied second position with an area of 0.092 million hectares, production of 0.138 million tonnes and productivity around 1494 kg/ha. Multistage purposive sampling technique was adopted for selection of sample at different levels of State, district, mandals and villages, thereafter simple random sampling was employed for selection of farmers. Trends of climatic variability analysed by Mann-Kendall test and Sen’s slope estimator revealed that variation in monthly values of maximum temperature was in the range of 27.10C to 46.40C, whereas, the same for minimum temperature is between 10.10C to 26.70C. The Compound Annual Growth Rate revealed that there was significant and positive growth rate of area, production and productivity of chickpea in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh was reflected by 11.38, 13.18 and 1.62, from 1990-91 to 2020-21. The Farmer Sustainability Index values ranged between 23.81 to 71.43, with mean value of 51.50. Among the sampled farmers only eight farmers were found sustainable which fall in the range of >70.00 on a scale of 0 – 100 while, majority of farmers 59 were found to be intermediate sustainable which fall in the range of 50.10 – 70.00. Data Envelopment Analysis results revealed that the mean technical efficiency score of chickpea production before availing the Y.S.R Free Crop Insurance Scheme was 0.895, but after availing the Scheme was 0.911. Mean TECRS (overall technical efficiency) and mean scale efficiency were found increased for the farmers after availing Y.S.R Free Crop Insurance Scheme. Results from Analysis of Covariance model revealed that crop insurance (0.0414), educational level (0.0346), and access to extension agents (0.1505) had exerted positively significant influence on technical efficiency of chickpea farmers. The major challenges faced by farmers in adopting Y.S.R Free Crop Insurance Scheme were lack of awareness, do not covered the farmer who make no visits to RBKs and delay in claim settlements | |
| dc.identifier.other | D6370 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810200819 | |
| dc.keywords | SUSTAINABILITY | |
| dc.keywords | CHICKPEA FARMERS | |
| dc.keywords | Y.S.R. FREE CROP INSURANCE SCHEME | |
| dc.keywords | PRAKASAM DISTRICT | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.pages | 102 | |
| dc.publisher | Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | D6370; D6370 | |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Economics | |
| dc.theme | SUSTAINABILITY OF CHICKPEA FARMERS IN ADOPTING Y.S.R. FREE CROP INSURANCE SCHEME IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH | |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | |
| dc.title | SUSTAINABILITY OF CHICKPEA FARMERS IN ADOPTING Y.S.R. FREE CROP INSURANCE SCHEME IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH | |
| dc.type | Thesis |