Bairathi, RajeevMALINI, POKA2021-10-262021-10-262021-08-05Malini P. And Bairathi R.https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810177330Analysis of Constraints Faced by NGO Personnel in Effective Transfer of Agriculture Technology in Udaipur District of RajasthanIn a country like India with huge population, increase in production and productivity of crops is must to meet food requirements of people. Green revolution tried to increase production in India but there is still gap between the resources and need. To increase production and productivity of crops, transfer of latest technology to farmers is very much required. Transfer of technology is a complex process and it requires many organizations like government, non-governmental organizations, private organizations etc. NGOs play important role in transfer of technology along with government. NGO means non-governmental organizations. They are legal institutes working voluntarily for the benefit of society by providing services to people without expecting profit from them. In India, Bengal Home Industries was the first NGO founded in the year 1917 by Sri Gaganendranath Tagore for helping weavers and artists belonging to Kolkata handloom. At present there are 3.3 million NGOs in India according to the statistics of Central Statistical Institute of India. The people working in NGOs are called as NGO Personnel or NGO staff. These people are responsible for implementation of NGO programmes and projects. In transfer of technology NGO Personnel face various constraints which are technical, organizational, general, economic and socio-psychological in nature. Constraints are the hurdles that one face while doing some work which prevents them from doing it effectively. In order to transfer technology effectively and avoid constraints affecting technology transfer we should know the constraints majorly faced by NGO Personnel. Keeping this in view the present study “Analysis of Constraints Faced by NGO Personnel in Transfer of Agriculture Technology in Udaipur District of Rajasthan” was conducted in NGOs of Udaipur district with following objectives: 1. To know about profile of NGO Personnel involved in transfer of agriculture technology in Udaipur district of Rajasthan. 2. To find out programmes undertaken by NGOs in Udaipur district for transfer of agricultural technology. 3. To know the extent of methods used by NGOs in transfer of agricultural technology. 4. To know about constraints faced by NGO Personnel in transfer of agricultural technology. 5. To obtain suggestions from NGOs for effective transfer of agricultural technology. The research was conducted in Udaipur district of Rajasthan state. We selected six NGOs from Udaipur district and respondents were selected according to proportionate random sampling. By following this method, 40 respondents were selected from Seva Mandir, 30 respondents from BAIF, 30 respondents from Arpan Sansthan, 10 respondents from Gandhi Manav Kalyan Society, 5 respondents from Alert Sansthan and 5 respondents from Gayatri Seva Sansthan. Thus, total 120 NGO staff were selected for study. Face to face interview was used for collection of information from respondents. For classification of respondents according to their independent variables, frequency and Percentage was used. In the present study, Arithmetic Mean, Standard deviation, Ranking and Mean Percentage Score were used in this study. The results gave clarity that 62.5 percent of NGO Personnel came under Middle age category. The results also publicized that 52.5 percent NGO staff was from Joint family. Maximum number of NGO staff were graduated. It was determined that more males work in NGOs than female. The results concluded that majority of respondents belong to rural areas. Maximum number of NGO staff were married. The study of Experience revealed that most of the respondents have 2 to 10 years experience. It was also observed that majority of NGO Personnel have medium job satisfaction. While majority of NGO staff face high work load. The study on Aspects of job revealed that majority of staff work beyond the norms of post. They also work more than office hours. Majority of the respondents were skilled workers. Among the activities conducted by NGOs Providing inputs like seeds, fertilizers and equipment ranked first with MPS 82.9. Internet was the main source of information used by NGO Personnel for getting information about latest technology. While Group Meetings was the major method followed by NGO Personnel for transfer of agricultural technology. Majority of NGO staff was facing medium level of constraints. The study shows that NGO Personnel was mainly facing technological constraints than other categories of Constraints. Very few interested in building their capacity through training was the major constraint faced by NGO Personnel. Various Suggestions from NGO Personnel was recorded and rank was given to it. Government extending support was the major suggestion given by NGO Personnel for effective transfer of technology.EnglishThesis