A STUDY ON AWARENESS AND OPINION REGARDING SOIL HEALTH CARD SCHEME AMONG THE FARMERS
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2021-10
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SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY, MEERUT- 250110 (U.P.),
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION
S.V.P. University of Agriculture and Technology Meerut-250110 (U.P.) INDIA
Name of student : Anuj Kumar Id. No. : 2019
Admission : 2018-2019 Degree : Ph.D (Ag.)
Department : Agricultural Extension & Communication Minor : Horticulture
S.V.P.U.A&T., Meerut 250110
Advisor : Dr. D. K. Singh
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Thesis title : “A study on Awareness and Opinion regarding Soil
Health Card scheme among the farmers.”
The present study was carried out during the year 2020-2021, in Meerut and Muzaffarnagr districts of Uttar Pradesh. It was observed that 56.87 per cent SHC adopters were observed in the middle age category with their ages ranging between 31 to 60 years, most of the SHC adopters were educated, 90.63 per cent married, 72.50 per cent other backward caste, 73.13 per cent living in nuclear family system, 65.00 per cent having medium size of family, 93.75 per cent having pacca house, most of SHC adopters were belonged to small and marginal farmers category, 80.62 per cent SHC adopters possessed main occupation was farming, 52.50 per cent had membership in one organization, 70.00 per cent SHC farmers having private electric tube well, 66.87 per cent of the SHC scheme farmers had a medium level of scientific orientation, 74.38 per cent had a medium level of economic motivation, 34.38 per cent had very medium level of innovativeness, 33.75 per cent were belonging to income group of Rs. 1,00,001 to 2,00,000, 53.75 per cent of the SHC scheme farmers had a medium level of socio-economic status, majority of the SHC users mostly meet to neighbors and relatives to get the information, maximum SHC users were always using a mobile phone as a source of mass media contact, majority of soil health card adopters had possessed medium level of awareness about scheme and only five variables highly significant and positively correlated with the awareness level of SHC adopters, majority of SHC beneficiaries (76.25%) had opinion that SHC gives an idea of fertilizers usage pattern and SHC helps in timely management of fertilizers with ranked first and second respectively, 56.87 per cent of soil health card adopters had medium level of impact of Soil Health Card Scheme and only five variables had highly significant and positively correlated with the impact level on SHC adopters.
Most important reasons behind the non-adaptation of Soil Health Card Scheme were high price of fertilizers, illiteracy among the farmers for using soil health card and extension workers are not available to advise at village level.
(Dr. D. K. Singh) (Anuj Kumar)
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