A STUDY ON ADOPTION OF CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS OF MAJOR CROPS BY THE FARMERS IN DRYLAND FARMING IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

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dc.contributor.advisorPRAVEENA, P.L.R.J.
dc.contributor.authorCHENNA MADHAVA, MUSANI
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-13T07:32:24Z
dc.date.available2022-05-13T07:32:24Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-22
dc.descriptionA STUDY ON ADOPTION OF CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS OF MAJOR CROPS BY THE FARMERS IN DRYLAND FARMING IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESHen_US
dc.description.abstractDryland farming in India has been in practice since time immemorial. The farming operations in the dryland depend on the rainfall and the farmers invariably need to adopt interventions that would save the water and mitigate the stress. Crop wise critical interventions have been developed by the researchers in order to mitigate drought and to increase yield of dryland crops. Large-scale adoption of these critical interventions by the dryland farmers would help in minimizing the crop losses and maximizing the returns. Keeping in the view of growing significance of dryland farming and also need for adoption of critical interventions in dryland farming, the present study entitled “A Study on Adoption of Critical Interventions of Major Crops by the Farmers in Dryland Farming in Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh” was undertaken. The study was framed in such a manner to analyze the profile of farmers with level of knowledge, extent of adoption and to find out the relationship between selected independent variables and dependent variable. Ex post facto research design was followed for conducting the study. Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh was selected purposively as it has highest area of dryland in coastal region of Andhra Pradesh and there is a scope for increasing the area, production, productivity of dryland cotton and redgram in the state through effective critical intervention strategies. Among 56 mandals in Prakasam district, four (4) mandals viz., Giddalur, Racherla, Bestavaripeta and Markapur were chosen purposively for the present study based on the highest area under dryland cultivation. List of all villages of each selected mandal was obtained. Out of these, two villages from each selected mandal viz., Sanjeevarayunipeta and Kommunuru from Giddalur mandal, Annampalli and xviii Racherla from Racherla mandal, Konapalli and Singarapalli from Bestavaripeta mandal and two villages from Markapaur namely Darimadugu and Bodapadu were selected by following simple random sampling procedure, thus making a total of 8 villages. From each of the selected villages, fifteen farmers were selected by following simple random sampling procedure, thus making a total of 120 farmers. Redgram and cotton crops were selected purposively for the study as these were the major crops grown under rainfed conditions in the district. The results of the study revealed that majority of the dryland farmers were old aged, illiterate, small to medium farmers, medium to high level of experience in dryland farming, attained low to medium level of yields in redgram and medium to low level of yields in cotton, medium to high annual income, medium to low extension contact, medium to high mass media exposure, medium to low information seeking behaviour, medium to high social participation, medium to high credit orientation, medium to low risk preference, poor to fair irrigation status, medium to low economic orientation, medium to low decision making ability and poor to fair cropping pattern. Majority of the dryland farmers had medium to high level of knowledge and extent of adoption on critical interventions in redgram and cotton. The independent variables education, land holding, yield, annual income, extension contact, mass media exposure, information seeking behaviour, social participation, credit orientation, risk preference, economic orientation, decision making ability, irrigation status and cropping pattern were found positive and significant with level of knowledge on critical interventions in redgram. Age and experience in dryland farming were found negative and significant with level of knowledge on critical interventions in redgram. All the selected 16 independent variables put together, explained about 85.20 per cent variation in the level of knowledge of dryland farmers on critical interventions in redgram. The independent variables education, land holding, yield, annual income, extension contact, mass media exposure, information seeking behaviour, social participation, credit orientation, risk preference, irrigation status, economic orientation, decision making ability and cropping pattern were found positive and significant with level of knowledge on critical interventions in cotton. Age and experience in dryland farming were found negative and significant with level of knowledge on critical interventions in cotton. All the selected 16 independent variables put together, explained about 76.80 per cent variation in the level of knowledge on critical interventions in cotton by the dryland farmers. The independent variables education, land holding, yield, annual income, extension contact, mass media exposure, information seeking behaviour, social participation, credit orientation, risk preference, irrigation status, economic orientation, decision making ability and cropping pattern were significant with the extent of adoption of critical interventions in redgram. Age and experience in dryland farming were found negative and significant with the extent of adoption of critical interventions in redgram. All the selected 16 independent variables put xix together, explained about 74.70 per cent variation in the extent of adoption of critical interventions in redgram by the dryland farmers. The independent variables education, land holding, yield, annual income, extension contact, mass media exposure, information seeking behaviour, social participation, credit orientation, risk preference, irrigation status, economic orientation, decision making ability and cropping pattern were found positive and significant relationship with the extent of adoption of critical interventions in cotton. Variables like age and experience in dryland farming were found negative and non significant relationship with the extent of adoption of critical interventions in cotton. All the selected 16 independent variables put together, explained about 72.80 per cent variation in the extent of adoption of critical interventions in cotton by the dryland farmers. Regarding technical constraints expressed by the dryland farmers insufficient availability of water was the major constraint expressed by dryland farmers followed by non-availability of quality seed in time, inadequate knowledge on drought mitigation measures, lack of knowledge on water conservation techniques, non-availability of seed treatment chemicals in small quantities, inadequate knowledge about foliar application of nutrients, nonavailability of improved machinery due to high cost, inadequate knowledge on amount of seed required, inadequate knowledge on intercrops to be grown and lack of timely weather-based information. The constraints of dryland farmers with regard to socio personal aspects in the rank order were more interested to follow conventional practices, illiteracy of the farmer, inability to accept new practices, inability to take risk, small size of the farm, lack of support from the villagers, increasing labour scarcity. The constraints of dryland farmers with regard to financial aspects based on total score and rank order of their importance were high cost of inputs, delay in sanction of the loans due to stringent procedures followed by financial institutions, high rate of interest charged by private money lenders, inadequate support from financial institutes, flaws in crop insurance schemes, lack of savings, poor economic status of the farmer. The major suggestions as perceived by the dryland farmers in rank order are conducting training programmes on in-situ moisture conservation and drought mitigating technologies followed by subsidies on micro irrigation systems for field crops, timely supply of quality seeds and inputs through Raithu Bharosa Kendras, assistance from the government at the time of drought, providing irrigation facilities by completing Veligonda irrigation project as early as possible, developing suitable drought resistant varieties and encouraging multiplication of these varieties through seed village concept, assistance from financial institutes with low interest rates. A suitable strategy has been developed keeping in view of the results obtained in the study and discussions held with the stakeholders of the study.en_US
dc.identifier.otherD6135
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810184717
dc.keywordsCRITICAL INTERVENTIONS, MAJOR CROPS,DRYLAND FARMINGen_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.pages245en_US
dc.publisherAcharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Gunturen_US
dc.subAgricultural Extensionen_US
dc.themeA STUDY ON ADOPTION OF CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS OF MAJOR CROPS BY THE FARMERS IN DRYLAND FARMING IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESHen_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleA STUDY ON ADOPTION OF CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS OF MAJOR CROPS BY THE FARMERS IN DRYLAND FARMING IN PRAKASAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESHen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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