Knowledge and Adoption of Participant and Non-Participant Maize Growers of Farmers Field Schools in Chickaballapur District of Karnataka
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2010-07-10
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
The Farmers Field School (FFS) is a non-formal learner centered education process. It seeks
to empower people to solve their field problems actively by fostering participation, interaction,
dialogue, joint decision making. The present investigation was carried out in Chickaballapur district
of Karnataka state in the year 2009-10. The three taluks Shidlaghatta, Bagepalli and Chinthamani
were purposively selected for the study where FFS has been organized in the year 2004-05. The
findings of the study revealed that, most (41.67%) participants belonged to high and greater part
(45.00%) of non-participants belonged to the category of low knowledge level regarding cultivation
practices of Maize. Most 38.33 per cent of participants belonged high and 40 per cent of nonparticipants
belonged to the category of low adoption level regarding recommended practices of
Maize. Most (36.67%) of the participants were young and most (38.33%) of the non-participants were
middle aged. 38.33per cent of participants had medium education where as 41.67 per cent of nonparticipants
had low level of education. More than half of the respondents are big farmers. 46.67 per
cent of participants had medium and most 46.67 per cent of non-participants had low level of mass
media exposure. Most (43.33%) of the participants and 36.67 per cent had had low and medium level
of extension participation respectively. 43.33 per cent of participants had medium whereas, 36.67 per
cent of non-participants had low extension contact. More than half of the respondents had medium
level of organizational participation. As observed 35 per cent of participants had high and 38.33 of
non-participants had medium cosmopoliteness. Best part, 43.33 per cent of participants and 40 per
cent of non-participants had medium level of economic orientation. Most 46.67 per cent of
participants belonged to high and 36.67 per of non-participants belonged to medium achievement
motivation level. Most 41.67 per cent of participants belonged to medium and 40 per cent of nonparticipants
had high innovative proneness. Variables like age, education, mass media exposure,
extension participation, achievement motivation and extension contact are significantly associated
with knowledge of participants. Variables like age, education, land holding, mass media exposure,
extension participation, extension contact, cosmopoliteness and innovative proneness are significantly
associated with knowledge of non-participants. Variables like age, education, land holding,
extension participation, extension contact, economic orientation and achievement
motivation are significantly associated with adoption of participants. Variables like age,
education, land holding, mass media exposure, extension participation and
extension contact are significantly associated with knowledge of non-participants. Nearly half
of the respondents sold their produce through marketing channel Producer-Trader-Retailer–
Consumer. Nearly ninety per cent of the participants expressed that Lack of encouragement in the
village as their main constraint. Around 90 per cent of participants expressed that high cost of plant
protection chemicals and nearly 80 per cent of non-participants expressed that timely non-availability
of labour as their main production constraint. More than eighty per cent of respondents expressed that
fluctuation in market prices as their main marketing constraint.
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