Role of privatization of extension services for sustainable agricultural development

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dc.contributor.advisorMalik, Joginder S.
dc.contributor.authorJasvinder Kaur
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-03T04:27:13Z
dc.date.available2017-06-03T04:27:13Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe present study entitled ìRole of privatization of extension services for sustainable agricultural development was undertaken in the Ambala, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Hisar and Fatehabad districts of Haryana state with the following specific objectives : To explore the knowledge and attitude of farmersí towards privatization of agricultural extension services; To find out the farmer ís accessibility and preferences towards public and private extension services; To assess the feasibility of extension delivery mechanism of private agricultural extension agencies; To study the socio- economic and psychological characteristics of farmers utilizing private extension services. From each district two blocks were selected randomly and from each block two villages were selected. Manageable sizes of 10 farmers was selected from each village thus making total sample size of 200 farmers . A sample of 40 private extension agencies was also taken randomly ; from each district eight agencies were selected. The study revealed that majority of the respondents were in middle to old age groups, belonged to fair educational status , had agriculture as their main occupation and belonged to small to large land holding. Fur ther, farmers had medium to high extension contact, mass media participation, SES, risk preference, scientific orientation and economic motivation. As far as knowledge was concerned all the farmers had knowledge regarding different aspects of privatization of agricultural extension services and the highest knowledge was about general services (mean 6.61) followed by input supply (mean 6.00) and infrastructure facilities (mean 6.00) . Overall 82.50 per cent of farmers had high knowledge level regarding PAES. Among independent variables extension contact and education were found to have positive and significant association with knowledge of farmers. Farmers also had good attitude towards PAES as 82.00 per cent of the farmers fell between favourable to more favourable categor ies. Independent variables viz., education, occupation, land holding, SES and extension contact were found positively and significantly associated with attitude of farmers . Farmers had greater accessibility in private extension for input supply (mean 10.90) and nfrastructure facilities (mean 9.67) , while for consultancy & diagnosis services (mean 10.51) , information (mean 11.53) and technical services (mean 8.90) public extension was found more accessible in both the zones. Similarly , farmers prefer the consultancy & diagnosis services (mean 4.36), information (mean 5.63) and technical services (mean 3.82) in public extension, while for input supply (mean 5.84) and infrastructure (mean 4.08) they preferred more private extension services. Sixty five per cent of the farmers found private extension services highly feasible followed by 25 and 10 per cent with medium and low level of feasibility , respectively . Lacks of infrastructure facilities (rank I), communication gap ( rank II) and lack of coordination ( rank I II) were some of the commonly faced problems by private extension agencies. The study concluded that private and public extension services must work together for the overall development of the farming community .en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810014877
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCCSHAUen_US
dc.subExtension Education
dc.subjectAgr iculture extension, PAES, Knowledge, Attitude, Accessibility , Preference, Feasibilityen_US
dc.these.typePh.D
dc.titleRole of privatization of extension services for sustainable agricultural developmenten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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