“ADOPTION OF DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM AND ITS IMPACT ON FARMER’S LIVELIHOOD” 3250
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2021-05
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JAU JUNAGADG
Abstract
socio-economic, adoption, livelihood impact, cost of cultivation,
constraints
The present study entitled “Adoption of drip irrigation system and its impact on
farmer’s livelihood” was undertaken for Saurashtra region. Multi stage purposive
sampling technique was used for data collection and three districts namely Rajkot,
Junagadh and Gir Somnath were selected to survey 120 samples of summer groundnut
grower. The statistical tools adopted for the analysis of data were tabular method, logit
model analysis, cost of cultivation and garret’s ranking technique. The result shows that
farm size and level of education have positive effect for adoption drip irrigation system.
The social asset and financial assets score of drip adopter farmers was 38 per cent an
18 per cent higher with respect to non-adopter of drip irrigation system farmers. Which
indicate that livelihood of drip irrigation adopted farmers is better than non-adopter of
drip irrigation system farmers. Drip adopted farmers get good net return with input output ratio 1: 1.48, while non-adopter of drip irrigation system farmers get less return
with input-output ratio 1: 1.21. Lack of technical know-how is major problem faced by
drip adopter farmers