Knowledge and Adoption of Participant and Non-Participant Maize Growers of Farmers Field Schools in Chickaballapur District of Karnataka
dc.contributor.advisor | Krishnamurthy, B. | |
dc.contributor.author | GOPALA, Y. M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-16T09:13:24Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-16T09:13:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-07-10 | |
dc.description.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. | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | TH-9656 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810020936 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.pages | 175 | en_US |
dc.publisher | UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU | en_US |
dc.sub | Agricultural Extension | en_US |
dc.subject | null | en_US |
dc.theme | Knowledge and Adoption of Participant and Non-Participant | en_US |
dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
dc.title | Knowledge and Adoption of Participant and Non-Participant Maize Growers of Farmers Field Schools in Chickaballapur District of Karnataka | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |