Perception of farmers about indigenous technical knowledge in plant protection
| dc.contributor.advisor | Deshmukh, J.M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Londhe, Shital Madhukar | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-25T07:24:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-10-25T07:24:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-08-22 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present study was conducted in Latur, Ausa and Renapur tahsils of Latur district from Marathwada region of Maharashtra state, with an objective to study the Perception of farmers about ITK in plant protection. Four villages from each tahsil were selected randomly. Total twelve villages were selected for research study. Ten respondents from each village were selected randomly to comprise a sample of 120 respondents. One short case study method of ex-post-facto medium research design was adopted for this study. It was noticed that more than half (60.84%)of respondents had medium farming experience, less than half (32.50%) of respondents educated up to primary school level, more than three fourth (77.50%) of respondent had medium size of family, less than half (47.50%) respondents had semi medium land holding, most (90.83%) respondents had medium annual income, 74.17 per cent of respondents had medium use of source of information, 75.00 per cent of respondents had medium extension contact, 89.17 per cent of respondents had medium social participation, 83.33 per cent had medium risk orientation and more than half (71.67%) had medium innovativeness. Also it was observed that majority (66.67%) of respondents had favourable perception about ITK in plant protection. Independent Variables like Family size, Source of information, Extension contact, Risk orientation and Innovativeness found to be positive and significant relationship with perception of respondents about indigenous technical knowledge in plant protection. While variables like Farming experience, Education, Size of land holding and Social participation found to be positive and highly significant relationship with perception of respondents about indigenous technical knowledge in plant protection It was observed that major factor influencing respondents of Latur district were more labour and time require (91.66%) followed lack of sufficient knowledge on indigenous farming practices for younger generation (80.00%), lack of training about indigenous knowledge (79.16%), lack of support from govt. authorities (75.00%), weak linkage between government and respondent (70.00%), low yielding nature of traditional packaging practices (68.33%). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810033812 | |
| dc.keywords | indigenous technical knowledge in plant protection | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.pages | 122 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani | en_US |
| dc.sub | Extension Education | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Agriculture | en_US |
| dc.these.type | M.Sc | en_US |
| dc.title | Perception of farmers about indigenous technical knowledge in plant protection | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |