AN ANALYSIS OF KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF ECO-FRIENDLY PRACTICES IN TURMERIC CULTIVATION IN ERODE DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADU

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dc.contributor.advisorLAKSHMI, T.
dc.contributor.authorKARTHIGA, V
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-13T07:45:46Z
dc.date.available2022-05-13T07:45:46Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-22
dc.descriptionAN ANALYSIS OF KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF ECO-FRIENDLY PRACTICES IN TURMERIC CULTIVATION IN ERODE DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADUen_US
dc.description.abstractDespite having tremendous growth in agricultural production and achieving food security, still Indian farmers suffer from ever-increasing input cost. Soaring environmental problems, eco-system instability and lack of self-sustainability of farmers force us to search for other methods of farming. One of such natural, recyclable and sustainable approaches of farming is Eco-friendly farming. It is effective and cost-efficient way to achieve sustainable development in the agriculture sector. As per the importance of certain crop produce in medicinal and culinary fields, there is a need for production of turmeric in eco-friendly methods to keep the chemical residues at its minimum. Hence, the present research was framed to analyze the level of knowledge and extent of adoption of turmeric growers on eco-friendly practices in turmeric cultivation with the specific objectives of studying the profile of turmeric growers, their level of knowledge, extent of adoption, relationship between profile characteristics and level of knowledge and extent of adoption, constraints and eliciting suggestions to overcome them in adopting the eco-friendly practices. Ex post facto research design was followed in the present investigation. Tamil Nadu state was selected purposively for the study as the researcher hails from the same state. Based on the highest area and production under turmeric cultivation in this state, Erode district was selected purposively for the study. From this district, two blocks namely Kodumudi and Modakurichi were selected purposively based on the highest area and production under turmeric cultivation. Four villages from each of the two blocks were selected by using simple random sampling method thus making a total of eight villages. From each of the selected villages, 15 turmeric growers having not less than 5 years of experience in turmeric cultivation were selected by following simple random sampling procedure, making xvi a total of 120 turmeric growers for the study. Fifteen independent variables that were relevant for the study and two dependent variables namely level of knowledge and extent of adoption were identified for the investigation. With a help of a well-structured and pre-tested interview schedule developed for the study, detailed data were collected from the respondents during the months of February 2021 to March 2021. Using suitable statistical tools, the collected data were analyzed in order to categorize the respondents under the selected independent variables and also to identify their relationship with the dependent variables. The findings were meaningfully interpreted and relevant conclusions were drawn. The results with regard to the profile of the turmeric growers indicated that majority of the turmeric growers were middle aged with middle school level of education, small and marginal farmers with medium farming experience, training undergone, social participation, extension contact, innovativeness, mass media exposure, risk orientation, economic motivation, market orientation, scientific orientation, achievement motivation and market intelligence. Majority of the turmeric growers had medium to high level of knowledge and medium to high extent of adoption regarding eco-friendly practices in turmeric cultivation. In case of relationship between independent variables and level of knowledge on eco-friendly practices in turmeric cultivation, variables such as education, training undergone, innovativeness, mass media exposure, risk orientation, economic motivation, market orientation and market intelligence had positive and significant relationship with level of knowledge of turmeric growers at 1 per cent level of significance. Social participation and scientific orientation had positive and significant relationship with level of knowledge at 5 per cent level. Age had negative and significant relation with level of knowledge at 5 per cent level. Farm size, farming experience, extension contact and achievement motivation had no association with the level of knowledge of turmeric growers. In case of relationship between independent variables and extent of adoption of eco-friendly practices in turmeric cultivation, variables such as education, farm size, training undergone, social participation, extension contact, mass media exposure, risk orientation and economic motivation had positive and significant relationship with extent of adoption of turmeric growers at 1 per cent level of significance. Market orientation and market intelligence had positive and significant relationship with extent of adoption at 5 per cent level. Age, scientific orientation, innovativeness, farming experience and achievement motivation had no association with the extent of adoption of turmeric growers. Regression analysis revealed that the fifteen selected independent variables put together explained 62.5 per cent variation in the level of knowledge of the turmeric growers on eco-friendly practices in turmeric cultivation. Among them training undergone, mass media exposure and risk orientation were found positively significant which was evident from their significant ‘t’ values. xvii Regarding extent of adoption of turmeric growers, the fifteen selected independent variables put together explained 77.1 per cent variation in the extent of adoption of the turmeric growers on eco-friendly practices in turmeric cultivation. Among them mass media exposure and risk orientation were found positively significant which was evident from their significant ‘t’ values. The major constraints that were encountered by the turmeric growers in adopting eco-friendly practices were labour scarcity, poor quality of inputs and non-availability of inputs under the category of physical constraints, lack of knowledge about eco-friendly practices, lack of skill about eco-friendly practices and inability to attend training programs under personal, lack of price policy for eco-friendly agricultural produce, high cost of labour and high cost of inputs under socio-economic, high risk involved, reduction of rhizome yield and lack of technical guidance under technical, attack of insect pests and diseases and their management, high weed intensity and pollution of irrigation canal water under environmental, lack of success stories of adoption of eco-friendly practices, lack of demonstrated impacts on eco-friendly practices, lack of awareness of agroenvironmental problems, lack of motivation from officials under extension constraints. Provision of minimum support price for turmeric produce, frequent visits by extension agent and proper extension support, availability of local technical guidance, organizing more training programmes on eco-friendly practices, provision of machinery for turmeric harvesting to reduce labour costs, establishment of processing and value addition units, provision for utilizing MNREGA labourers for farm works, providing quality inputs at subsidized costs, construction of warehouses for storage of the produce, measures to reduce the pollution of irrigation canal water, provision of insurance for crop loss, establishment of soil-testing facilities at block level and organizing field demonstrations on eco-friendly practices were the major suggestions given by turmeric growers to overcome the above constraints.en_US
dc.identifier.otherD6136
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810184718
dc.keywordsKNOWLEDGE ,ADOPTION, ECO-FRIENDLY PRACTICES , TURMERIC CULTIVATION, TAMIL NADUen_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.pages225en_US
dc.publisherAcharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Gunturen_US
dc.subAgricultural Extensionen_US
dc.themeAN ANALYSIS OF KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF ECO-FRIENDLY PRACTICES IN TURMERIC CULTIVATION IN ERODE DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADUen_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleAN ANALYSIS OF KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF ECO-FRIENDLY PRACTICES IN TURMERIC CULTIVATION IN ERODE DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADUen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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