Economic Contribution of Agricultural Extension Services provided by Karnataka Watershed Development Project to Beneficiaries of Bijapur district
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2015-11-11
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
The present study is conducted to measure the ‘Economic contribution of
Agricultural Extension Services provided by Karnataka Watershed Development Project’
to the beneficiaries of Bijapur district’ during the year 2014-15. Ex-post facto research
design, specifically before and after method was adopted to know the changes in the
important indicators such as annual income, crop yields, employment generation and
materials status among beneficiaries due to KAWAD project and also developed a scale
on Economic contribution of AESs to capture the contribution of each services to the
economic status of the beneficiaries. Hence, 90 beneficiary farmers and 90 nonbeneficiary
farmers were selected, thus 180 respondents constitute the sample for the
research study. Then, structured interview schedule was used to collect data. Important
findings of the study reveals that majority (42.22 %) of the beneficiary farmers were
belonged to ‘medium’ and ‘high’ (37.78 %) category with respect to overall access to the
services of KAWAD project. Over a half (55.56 %) of the beneficiary farmers had
‘better’ accessed to the credit services followed by training services (54.45 %) and
advisory services (51.11 %), about 67.78 and 46.67 per cent of them had ‘best’ accessed
to input services and land based & crop management services respectively. About 40.00
per cent of them poorly accessed to the market services. Overall contribution of AESs
towards economic status of beneficiary farmers was found to be 24.37 per cent, among
major contribution from credit services (5.06%), land based and crop management
services (4.45%) and least contribution was from advisory services (3.09 %). Cent per
cent of them adopted the services like land leveling, land shaping & bunding followed by
construction of check dams & nala bunds (86.66 %), new tanks and farm ponds (83.33
%), contour bunding (76.66 %) etc,. Study also reveals that the positive impact of
KAWAD project on crop yield, annual income, employment generation, cropping
intensity and on material status. Increase in annual income by more than fourfold,
employment generation from 95 to 182 man-day’s per annum, cropping intensity (98.66
to 186.99 %). Whereas, among the suggestion the major was to supportive prices for
standing crops (88.88 %) followed by training on IGAs (81.11 %). The KAWAD project
has significantly contributed towards socio-political, economical and overall
development of KAWAD beneficiaries.
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