PRIVATIZATION OF EXTENSION SERVICE : ATTITUDE AND PREFERENCE OF FARMBRS AND EXTENSION PERSONNEL

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2001-08-09
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE
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The study was conducted to know the attitude and preference of farmers and extension personnel towards privatization of extension service in 16 villages of Haveri District. Data was elicited from 240 farmer respondents and 60 extension personnel operating in the study area. The major findings were; Less than fifty per cent of farmers (42.08%) and extension personnel (35.00%) had favourable attitude towards privatization of extension service. Majority of the farmer respondents (61.67%) preferred technical service by private agencies in the area of seed production followed by cultivation of fruits (53.33%), vegetables (52.92%) and flowers (52.92%). Eighty three per cent (82.92%) of the farmer respondents were willing to pay towards technical service rendered in the area of seed production followed by irrigation technology (55.67%), cultivation of flowers (56.67%), fruits (55.00%) and vegetables (52.08%). Majority of the extension personnel respondents (70.00%) preferred technical service by private agencies in the area of flower cultivation followed by vegetable cultivation (66.67%), seed production (63.33%) and fruits cultivation (61.67%). Seventy per cent of the extension personnel were of the opinion to collect fee for the technical service rendered in the area of seed production followed by irrigation technology (60.00%), post harvest technology (55.00%), daily and poultry (55.00%), cultivation of fruits (53.33%), vegetables (51,67%) and land development (51.67%). The variables such as annual income (19.94%), cropping intensity (18.24%), attitude (14.17%) and development opportunity (13.24%) had greater contribution towards discriminating the seed producing farmers from that of farmers of non-seed producing category
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