AN ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE CULTIVATION PRACTICES FOLLOWED BY GROUNDNUT FARMERS IN ANDHRA PRADESH

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dc.contributor.advisorLAKSHMI, T.
dc.contributor.authorSRIVIDYA RANI, N
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-08T07:21:52Z
dc.date.available2021-09-08T07:21:52Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-08
dc.descriptionAN ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE CULTIVATION PRACTICES FOLLOWED BY GROUNDNUT FARMERS IN ANDHRA PRADESHen_US
dc.description.abstractSustainable Agriculture encompasses a range of strategies, for addressing a large number of problems that are affecting worldwide. Such problems include loss of soil productivity from excessive erosion and associated plant nutrient losses, surface and ground water pollution from pesticides and fertilizers, awaiting shortages of non-renewable resources, low farm income from dejected commodity prices, high production costs- (Lockeretz et al., 1988) and also it is minimal dependence on synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and more dependent on use of manures, crop rotation and minimum tillage- (Edwards, 1987). As per the importance of sustainable agriculture in the present system the study was taken up in groundnut crop to analyze the knowledge and extent of adoption levels. The sustainable practices recommended by the scientists in the groundnut crop were not practiced by most of the farmers. Indiscriminate usage of the chemicals and fertilizers can be reduced by using the recommended practices. Hence it is necessary to know the cultivation practices of the farmers which helps the scientists in transfer of technologies in a better way and also the lacunae in transfer. These practices were divided into cultural, mechanical, biological and chemical practices for analysis of the knowledge and adoption of the groundnut growers. Groundnut is one of the main oil seed consumable crops in Andhra Pradesh and it has much importance in many districts of Andhra Pradesh and the main districts which are growing are Ananthapuramu and Chittoor ranked first and second in area of cultivation. So, importance of this crop is very high in these areas. xviii Hence, the present study in analysis of sustainable cultivation practices in groundnut crop was taken up. Ex- post- facto research design was chosen for the study. The present study was conducted in Ananthapuramu and Chittoor districts of Andhra Pradesh which were purposively selected based on the highest area of the groundnut cultivation. Maximum number of farmers were involved in cultivating groundnut crop. Out of 66 mandals of Chittoor district and 63 mandals of Ananthapuramu district three mandals from each district were purposively selected based on the highest area of groundnut cultivation, of which a total of six mandals were selected from the two districts. From each mandal 2 villages were selected randomly and a total of 12 villages were selected for analysis. From each village, 15 farmers who were cultivating groundnut were selected by simple random procedure, thus making a total of 180 respondents. Data were collected, by personal interview method and analyzed by employing suitable statistical tools. Seventeen independent variables, were subjected to statistical analysis in order to categorize the respondents and for studying their relationship with the dependent variables i.e., knowledge level and extent of adoption on sustainable cultivation practices in groundnut. Most of the groundnut growers were middle aged with high school and middle school level of education, medium to high farming experience, extension contact, achievement motivation, decision making pattern, scientific orientation, innovativeness, deferred gratification, management orientation and economic orientation, semi-medium and medium landholding, medium to low level of annual income, mass media exposure, training undergone and social participation towards sustainable cultivation practices in groundnut. Majority of the groundnut growers had medium- high level of knowledge and medium to high extent of adoption levels regarding sustainable cultivation practices, in groundnut. Correlation analysis of the independent variables, with the dependent variable on the knowledge level signified that the variables such as education, farm size, annual income, mass media exposure, extension contact, achievement motivation, risk orientation, deferred gratification, management and economic orientation had a positive and significant relation with knowledge level of the groundnut farmers at 1 per cent level. Training undergone, scientific orientation and innovativeness showed a positive and significant relation at 5 per cent level. Social participation and decision-making pattern had shown non- significant relation with knowledge level. Age and farming experience had a negative and significant relation with the knowledge level of the groundnut growing farmers. Regression analysis revealed that the seventeen selected independent variables, put together explained 79.80 per cent variation in the knowledge level of the groundnut growers on sustainable cultivation practices. Among them education, training undergone, extension contact, decision making pattern, innovativeness, management orientation, deferred gratification and economic orientation were found positively significant which was evident from their significant ‘t’ values. xix The independent variables such as education, annual income, mass media exposure, extension contact, achievement motivation, decision-making pattern, scientific orientation, innovativeness, management orientation and economic orientation had a positive and significant relation with the adoption level of groundnut growers at one-per cent level of significance. Farm size and training undergone had showed a positive and significant relation at five per cent level. Social-participation, risk orientation and deferred gratification showed non-significant relation with the adoption level. Age and farming experience had a negative and significant-relation with adoption level of the groundnut farmers. Regression analysis proved that, selected 17 independent variables which were put together explained 55.80 per cent variation with the extent of adoption on sustainable cultivation practices. Among them education, decision making pattern and management orientation were found positively significant as apparent from their significant ‘t’ values. The major constraints as perceived by the groundnut farmers were high weed intensity, incidence of pests and diseases and problematic soils under the category of technical, high wage rates, high cost of seed material and high cost of fertilizers and pesticides under financial, lack of awareness on sustainable cultivation practices, unwillingness of the farmers to take risk and poor economic status of the farmer under personal, inadequate supply of high yielding quality seed material, inadequate availability of manures and biofertilizers and lack of insurance provision under support and services, untimely rains, drought at critical stages of crop growth and poor pod/grain setting under agro-climatic factors, lack of information about prices and markets, exploitation by market intermediaries and local dealers and high transportation costs under processing and marketing constraints. Organizing training programs on identification of pests and diseases and its control measures, providing quality inputs at subsidized rates, provision of remunerative market price to the farmers, provision of cropinsurance by the government and provision of machinery for the farm operations to reduce the labour costs were the major suggestions given by the groundnut growers. Further a suitable strategy has been framed for better adoption of sustainable cultivation practices in groundnut.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810175366
dc.keywordsANALYSIS , CULTIVATION PRACTICES , GROUNDNUT FARMERSen_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.pages340en_US
dc.publisherAcharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Gunturen_US
dc.subAgricultural Extensionen_US
dc.themeAN ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE CULTIVATION PRACTICES FOLLOWED BY GROUNDNUT FARMERS IN ANDHRA PRADESHen_US
dc.these.typePh.Den_US
dc.titleAN ANALYSIS OF SUSTAINABLE CULTIVATION PRACTICES FOLLOWED BY GROUNDNUT FARMERS IN ANDHRA PRADESHen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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