A STUDY ON TENANT FARMERS OF Bt COTTON IN GUNTUR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
dc.contributor.advisor | RAMBABU, P | |
dc.contributor.author | VYSALI, KANTHETI | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-14T05:57:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-14T05:57:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.description | D5623 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Research study entitled “A study on tenant farmers of Bt cotton in Guntur District of Andhra Pradesh” was under taken to study the profile characteristics of Bt cotton tenant farmers, their knowledge level, adoption level, and their relation with profile characteristics, constraints and suggestions faced by Bt cotton tenant farmers. An ex-post facto research design was followed. The study was conducted in Andhra Pradesh state during 2017-18. Guntur district was selected as it has the highest area under cotton cultivation in Andhra Pradesh. Out of 57 mandals in Guntur district, three mandals were selected randomly after listing out the total number of mandals where tenant farmers are more in cotton growing area. Three mandals namely Prathipadu, Veldurthi and Karempudi were selected. Four villages were selected from each selected mandal randomly where tenant farmers are more with cotton growing area. Ten tenant farmers were selected from each village by simple random sampling procedure thus making a total of 120 farmers for the study. Data was collected with pre-tested interview schedule followed by personal interview method by selecting the independent variables viz., age, education, land taken for lease, farming experience, training received, extension contact, social participation, annual income, credit acquisition and utilization, possession of soil health card, innovativeness, economic motivation, mass media exposure, risk orientation, market orientation and dependent variables with the extent of knowledge and adoption of recommended package of practices by the tenant farmers in Bt cotton cultivation. For the purpose of statistical analysis of the coded data various statistical tools were used viz., Arithmetic Mean, Standard Deviation, Frequency & Percentage, Correlation coefficient, Multiple Linear Regression (MLR). The detailed analysis of profile of the beneficiaries indicated that majority of the beneficiaries were middle aged (55.00%), Functionally literate (27.50%), Land taken for lease of about 1.1 to 2.0 hectares (35.00%) , 7 to 9 years of farming in Bt cotton (40.84%), 1 to 2 trainings received (50.00%), medium extension contact (52.50%), low social participation (40.00%), low annual income of Rs. 12, 307-71, 691 (60.83%), Credit acquisition from money lenders (43.33%), Credit utilization for non agricultural purpose (55.00%), Possession of soil health card (62.50%), medium innovativeness (70.83%), medium economic motivation (64.17%), medium mass media exposure (47.50%), medium risk orientation (53.33%), medium market orientation (56.67%). The detailed analysis of dependent variables indicated that majority (65.83%) of the Bt cotton tenant farmers had medium level of knowledge on production technologies, followed by low (17.50%) and high knowledge (16.67%) categories. Little more than half of the Bt cotton tenant farmers (52.50%) had medium adoption, followed by high (24.17) and low (23.33%) adoption levels with regard to adoption of Bt cotton production technology. Out of fifteen independent variables studied namely education, land taken for lease, training received, extension contact, social participation, annual income, credit acquisition and utilization, possession of soil health card, innovativeness, economic motivation, mass media exposure, risk orientation, market orientation showed a positive and significant relationship with knowledge of Bt cotton tenant farmers at 1 per cent level of significance. Whereas, age showed negative and non-significant relationship and farming experience showed positive and non-significant relationship with knowledge of Bt cotton tenant farmers. Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) analysis revealed that all the selected fifteen independent variables put together, explained about 78.80 per cent variation in the level of knowledge for Bt cotton tenant farmers. Remaining 21.20 per cent was due to the extraneous effect of the variables. Out of fifteen independent variables studied namely education, land taken for lease, training received, extension contact, social participation, annual income, credit acquisition and utilization, possession of soil health card, innovativeness, economic motivation, mass media exposure, risk orientation, market orientation showed a positive and significant relationship with adoption level of Bt cotton tenant farmers at 1 per cent level of significance whereas, age showed negative and non-significant relationship and farming experience showed positive and non-significant relationship with adoption level of Bt cotton tenant farmers. Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) analysis revealed that all the selected fifteen independent variables put together, explained about 87.60 per cent variation in the adoption level for Bt cotton tenant farmers. Remaining 12.40 per cent was due to the extraneous effect of the variables. Major constraints faced by the Bt cotton tenant farmers were inadequate financial assistance from banks was ranked first, followed by non-availability of crop insurance for tenant farmers ranked second, high interest rates by private money lenders ranked third, high rents for the lands leased ranked fourth and non-availability of loan waiver scheme for tenant farmers ranked fifth. It also revealed that constraints such as no written lease agreements, non availability of credit in time, input subsidy is not available, high cost of Bt cotton seed, tenancy time is mostly short term, high cost of fertilizers and chemicals, complex procedure in getting loans from banks for tenant farmer, lack of remunerative minimum support price, insufficient availability of irrigation facilities, lack of knowledge on pest and disease management, non-availability of timely technical guidance, scarcity of labour at the time of picking, high charges by commission agents, fluctuations in market prices, and non availability of quality inputs were ranked from sixth to twentieth ranks respectively. Major suggestions given by the Bt cotton tenant farmers in percentage decreasing order are sufficient financial assistance at low interest rate was ranked first, followed by crop insurance should be available ranked second, government should monitor the land lease rents ranked third and provide loan waiver scheme for tenant farmers ranked fourth. It also revealed that the suggestions such as written agreements should be made, input subsidy need to be provided, tenancy tenure should be at least for 3 to 4 years, government should check the high interest rates by private money lenders, simplification of procedure in getting loans from banks for tenant farmer, providing remunerative minimum support price, provide irrigation facilities, timely provision of quality inputs in the market at affordable price, providing timely technical guidance, conduct trainings and demonstrations and should decrease commission charges taken by commission agents were ranked from fifth to fifteenth respectively. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810094965 | |
dc.keywords | TENANT FARMERS, Bt COTTON | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.pages | 230 | en_US |
dc.publisher | Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University | en_US |
dc.research.problem | A STUDY ON TENANT FARMERS OF Bt COTTON IN GUNTUR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH | en_US |
dc.sub | Agricultural Extension | en_US |
dc.subject | null | en_US |
dc.theme | A STUDY ON TENANT FARMERS OF Bt COTTON IN GUNTUR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH | en_US |
dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
dc.title | A STUDY ON TENANT FARMERS OF Bt COTTON IN GUNTUR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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