Scientists ' View and Farmers Perception of Indigenous Agricultural Practices in West Sighbhum District
| dc.contributor.advisor | R.P.singh "Ratan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sanat Kumar Sawaiyan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-13T10:47:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-07-13T10:47:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2001 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 1.Majority of the respondents were tribal, middle-aged, and illiterate engaged in cultivation, having small size of holdings and participation in social organization as members of at least one organization. Majority of the respondents had nuclear large families and had Kutcha houses. Majority of them had 1 to 2 draught animals and reared only poultry/goatary /piggery. 2.There were significant differences between man and woman respondents with respect to their age, education and social participation. 3.The respondents farming systems were rice-based followed by rice in cereals, pigeonpea in pulses, linseed in oilseeds, okra in vegetable, hatana in forest trees, mango in fruit, poulty and goat rearing in livestock .Mixed cropping and intercropping emerged as major cropping patterns. 4.Cent-per-cent of the respondents were observed to be praticising traditional /indigenous agricultural practices were identified and document. 5. The farmers and scientists perceptions of selected indigenous agricultural practices were almost similar on the three attributes separately for about 90 per cent of selected indigenous practices 86.66% for profitability,96.66% for practicability and 93.33% for simplicity .However,when the three attributes were taken simultaneously, there were slight variation in the perceptions of the two categories of the respondents with respect to the three attributes of selected practices. 6.Altogether 80 percent of selected indigenous agricultural practices were perceived as high for their overall performance by both the categories of respondents. 7.There was a significant positive correlation between the judgments of farmers and that of scientists with regard to their perception for overall performance of the selected indigenous practices. 8. One third of the selected indigenous technical knowledge practices were perceived as high and about 17 % were perceived as medium for their overall performance by both the categories of respondent s .The two categories of respondents has difference in their perception for the overall performance of rest 50% of the selected indigenous agricultural technologies . 9. Majority of the scientist , matched 60% of indigenous agricultural practices all most as such with there corresponding scientific technology and suggested specific technology only for 40% of the indigenous practices. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810211923 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.pages | 143 | |
| dc.publisher | Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi | |
| dc.sub | Extension Education | |
| dc.theme | Scientists ' View and Farmers Perception of Indigenous Agricultural Practices in West Sighbhum District | |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | |
| dc.title | Scientists ' View and Farmers Perception of Indigenous Agricultural Practices in West Sighbhum District | |
| dc.type | Thesis |