AWARENESS, ATTITUDE AND ADOPTION TOWARDS CARBON SEQUESTRATION TECHNOLOGIES IN RICE AND SUGARCANE BASED FARMING SYSTEM
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2017-10-27
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BENGALURU
Abstract
The present investigation was carried out to assess Awareness, Attitude and
Adoption of carbon sequestration technologies in Rice and Sugarcane based farming
system. One hundred eighty farmers practicing rice and sugarcane based farming system
were randomly selected from Maddur, Mandya, Nanjanagoodu, T. Narasipura, Kollegala
and Yelandur taluks of Mandya, Mysore and Chamarajanagar districts. Results revealed
that, 37.78 per cent of the farmers were having favorable attitude towards carbon
sequestration technologies and 40.00 per cent of them were moderately aware about the
carbon sequestration technologies in rice and sugarcane based farming system, where as
with respect to adoption only 42.22 per cent of the farmers have moderately adopted carbon
sequestration technologies. Correlation analysis indicated the profile characters viz.,
education, occupation, land holdings, annual income, mass media exposure, scientific
orientation, Risk orientation, Farming experience and innovative proneness had a positive
and significant relationship at one per cent level; Similarly, age, Extension contact,
Management orientation and Cosmopoliteness had positive and significant relationship
with attitude towards carbon sequestration technologies at five per cent level. The R2 value
indicated that all the 19 independent variables had contributed to the tune of 69.00 per cent
of variation in attitude of farmers towards carbon sequestration technologies. While
adoption of carbon sequestration technologies, low price for the produce and nonavailability
of labors were the top most constraints expressed by the farmers and they also
suggested that, RSK’s should ensure supplying of critical inputs at appropriate time in the
villages and increasing subsidies on micro irrigation structures beside giving support price
based on cost of cultivation were the major suggestions expressed by farmers.
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