FARMERS’ PERCEPTION AND PRACTICES TO MITIGATE CROP RESIDUAL BURNING IN HARYANA
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2020
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ICAR-NDRI, KARNAL
Abstract
The research entitled “Farmers’ perception and practices to mitigate crop residual
burning in Haryana” was undertaken with the objectives to assess the perception of
farmers about Crop Residual burning and readiness toward crop residual management, to
analysis the socio ecological issues with crop residual burning in study area, to study the
existing crop residue management practices and alternative use of crop residual in the
study area, to delineate the constraints faced by the respondents and suggestive measures
for crop residual management. This study was conducted in Haryana state because it is
one of the major crop residue burning state of India and limited studies had been
conducted in this region make it the perfect choice for study. Karnal, Kurukshetra and
Fatehabad districts were selected purposively because according to report of Haryana
Space Applications Center (2018) these districts are among five leading crop residue
burning districts. From each district two blocks were selected randomly, from each block
randomly three village were selected and from each village 10 respondent were selected.
So, the total number of respondent under study was 180. Data were collected with the
help of interview schedule. Finding of study revealed that farmers had medium to high
level of perception about crop residue burning and farmers were ready to adopt crop
residue management practices if any sustainable and economical feasible option will
provided. Perception and readiness was positively and significantly correlated with
independent variables such as education, owned farm assets, mass media exposure,
extension contact, innovativeness and ecological consciousness. Study shows that
farmers were aware about different kind of issues such as Agricultural issue, human
health issue, environment issue and other issues. Mostly farmers were aware about the
available crop residue management practices such as use as animal feed, soil
incorporation, use of SMS attached combine harvester, compost making, mushroom
cultivation etc. but mostly farmers were following use of balers, happy seeder, soil
incorporation and burning. All the respondents agreed that adoption of crop residue
management practices increases cost of production, to use machineries for crop residue
management requires high power tractor and crop residue interference with tillage and
seeding operations were the major constraints in adoption of crop management
techniques. Farmers suggested that to combat crop residual burning establishment of
biomass based power plant should be promoted; service of custom hiring centre should
be improve and demand of straw should be created by industries.