ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING: A STUDY ON FARMERS’ PERCEPTION IN NORTH KARNATAKA
| dc.contributor.advisor | JHA, SUMEET KUMAR | |
| dc.contributor.author | PATIL, DAYANANDA | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-18T09:58:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-10-18T09:58:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Agriculture production system have started evolving since aeons and is still evolving and undergoing a series of structural changes. Till the time of the phenomenon called as “Green Revolution”, our agriculture production system was nature-based. Green revolution, revolutionised our food production system through usage of chemical fertilisers, insecticides, pesticides, etc. As a consequence of indiscriminate use of chemical inputs, we are facing the loss of soil-biological eco-system, loss of bio-diversity, extinction of Indigenous Technical Knowledge, etc. Climate change is the new major challenge to the existing ones. In order to face these challenges, the upgraded version of nature-based farming, like organic farming, natural farming, permaculture, zero budget natural farming, etc have evolved, of late; and their capacity to revive the lost nature has been widely acknowledged. Keeping the above arguments in mind, the present study on “Zero Budget Natural Farming: A Study on Farmers’ Perception in North Karnataka” was undertaken, while especially emphasizing on the concept of Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), as propagated by people like Mr. Subhas Palekar in India. As of now the state of Karnataka has been implementing scheme focusing on ZBNF; and that is why, the state of Karnataka was selected, purposively for this study. Further, two districts from Northern part of Karnataka, namely Belagavi and Haveri were selected, randomly. The respondents were categorised into three categories: Planners, Adopters, Non-adopters. Planners were the farmers who got registered themselves in ZBNF programme and trying ZBNF in their field. Adopters had minimum of 3 years’ experience in ZBNF and non-adopters were not practising ZBNF. From each district, 25 respondents were selected, randomly, from each category of respondent. Accordingly, it accounted for 75 respondents from each district. Hence, a total of 150 respondents were selected for the purpose of data collection through semi-structured interview-schedule. Thereafter, the collected data were analysed through appropriate statistical tools, in order to draw meaningful interpretations. A large number of adopters were following reduced tillage method (86.00%), beejamrutha (88.00%), manures (100.00%) as source of nutrient management. Whereas, A large number of planners were following intensive tillage method (82.00%), beejamrutha (40.00%), manures (86.00%) as source of nutrient management. Commission agents were the major marketing channel used by both planners (84.00%) and adopters (78.00%). Nearly half (48.00%) of the planners had medium level of perception towards zero budget natural farming, whereas, most (44.00%) of the adopters had high level of perception. But equal per cent (40.00%) of nonadopters had low and middle level of perception towards zero budget natural farming. The characteristics like size of land holding, herd-size and source of information were significantly correlated with the perception level of the planners, adopters and non-adopters towards zero budget natural farming. The characteristics like education, farming experience, annual income, social participation, extension contact, extension participation, mass media exposure and innovativeness were found to be significantly correlated with the perception level of the planners and adopters towards ‘zero budget natural farming’. Lack of information on preparation and use of asthras was perceived as the most serious constraint. The second-most constraint experienced by the respondents happened to be timely unavailability of materials for preparation of ZBNF inputs. To conclude, ZBNF has the potentiality to revive the lost diversity of the farm land as well as to support the farmers economically with less input cost and greater output over a period of time. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810199083 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.pages | 75 p. | |
| dc.publisher | ICAR-NDRI, KARNAL | |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Extension | |
| dc.theme | MASTER OF SCIENCE | |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | |
| dc.title | ZERO BUDGET NATURAL FARMING: A STUDY ON FARMERS’ PERCEPTION IN NORTH KARNATAKA | |
| dc.type | Thesis |