A STUDY ON PERCEPTION OF RURAL YOUTH TOWARDS AGRICULTURE AS AN OCCUPATION IN SRIKAKULAM DISTRICT

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dc.contributor.advisorSRINIVASA RAO, M
dc.contributor.authorANANTHA VIHARI, M
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-14T06:08:09Z
dc.date.available2019-02-14T06:08:09Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionD5625en_US
dc.description.abstractYouth are the most potent segment of the population of a country. The youth of today are the hopes of tomorrow. They are the back bone of the country. The socio-economic development and prosperity of rural areas depends to a considerable extent on the type of youth living in rural areas, because the rural youth have abilities to orient themselves to go along with the main stream of the development process. They reflect the national potentiality and represent the life blood of a nation. Development of youth thus determines the development of community and country as a whole. Youth are prone to desire and ready to carry out their desires into action. They have open minds and further they have advantage of education and better capacity of understanding new techniques and skills. The youth thus can serve as best medium of our community-life on the technological as well as human plane by carrying new ideas and messages to their families. Since youth are recognized as effective “change agents”, they can help in the process of dissemination and adoption of modern techniques of agriculture. Active involvement of youth in agriculture is necessary for sustainable agricultural systems but is currently a challenge in many areas. The wide spread illiteracy in rural areas, unemployment among the educated youth, lack of proper guidance, ‘brain drain’ of educated rural youth to urban areas are some of the major problems. It is disturbing to note that youth are losing interest and confidence in agriculture and allied activities; hence, they are not willingly involved in agricultural operations. Considering all above things, the objectives were framed. An ex-post facto research design was followed. The study was conducted in Srikakulam district during the year, 2017-18. Srikakulam district was selected purposively, out of 38 mandals, three mandals were selected purposively and four villages were selected from each of the mandal for the study. Rural youth were selected from each village by following proportionate random sampling method. Thus, 120 rural youth constituted as sample for the study. Data was collected with pretested schedule by personal interview method. For the purpose of statistical analysis of the coded data, various statistical tools were used viz., frequency and percentage analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and ranking. The detailed analysis of profile characteristics of rural youth indicated that majority of them were married (63.33%), with intermediate (28.33%) education, having small land holdings (37.50%), medium annual income (55.84%), large size families (77.5%), belonging to joint families (75.84%), engaged in Agriculture + Animal husbandry occupation, had medium extension contact (57.50%), low level of social participation (40.83%), medium level of mass media exposure (55.00%), medium level of economic motivation (51.66%), medium level of risk orientation (57.50%), medium level of scientific orientation (54.16%), medium level of innovativeness (59.26%) and medium level of achievement motivation (56.66%). The detailed analysis of dependent variable indicated that majority of rural youth had medium level (63.33%) of perception towards agriculture as an occupation followed by high (20.00%) and low (16.67%). Out of fifteen selected profile characteristics, ten of them viz., marital status, land holdings, family type, social participation, mass media exposure, extension contact, risk orientation, innovativeness, economic motivation, scientific orientation and achievement motivation showed significant relation with the level of perception, while annual income, occupation, size of family, and education had shown non significant relationship. The multiple linear regression analysis (MLR) indicated that all the selected profile characteristics put together explained 76.60% of variance in the level of perception, remaining 23.40% is due to the extraneous effect in unidentified profile characteristics. The most important constraints encountered by the rural youth were, high cost of cultivation, inadequate availability of labor, low returns, pests and diseases problem, inadequate power supply, inadequate and untimely supply of fertilizers, lack of remunerative prices, inadequate irrigation facilities, inadequate training programmes, under employment, inadequate and untimely supply of seed, lack of proper guidance, destruction of crops by wild boars, and inadequate technical know how of chemicals. Suggestions made by the rural youth to overcome the constraints were: adequate and timely supply of fertilizers, financial support timely, supply of pheromone traps, regular supply of power, supply of NSKE, timely information on latest technologies, adequate and timely supply of quality seed, adequate and timely release of water for irrigation, conduct of training programmes and awareness programmes on agriculture to youth and remunerative price for agri products.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810094969
dc.keywordsPERCEPTION, RURAL YOUTH, OCCUPATION, SRIKAKULAMen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.pages171en_US
dc.publisherAcharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural Universityen_US
dc.research.problemA STUDY ON PERCEPTION OF RURAL YOUTH TOWARDS AGRICULTURE AS AN OCCUPATION IN SRIKAKULAM DISTRICTen_US
dc.subAgricultural Extensionen_US
dc.subjectnullen_US
dc.themeA STUDY ON PERCEPTION OF RURAL YOUTH TOWARDS AGRICULTURE AS AN OCCUPATION IN SRIKAKULAM DISTRICTen_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleA STUDY ON PERCEPTION OF RURAL YOUTH TOWARDS AGRICULTURE AS AN OCCUPATION IN SRIKAKULAM DISTRICTen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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