Ashalatha K.V.Najeer Ahmad D.G.2016-11-182016-11-182012http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/86333The study was attempted to estimate the number of farmers engaged in wheat production activities in the villages of Bagalkot and Dharwad using small area techniques . In the present study, the Bagalkot and Dharwad taluks are considered as broad area and villages in this area are considered as small area. The Bagalkot district is selected under irrigated area and Dharwad district is selected under rainfed area. From each selected district, one taluk was selected randomly, from each taluk four villages were selected and from each selected village twenty five farmers were selected randomly. The total sample size was 200 farmers. The primary data was collected from the Wheat growing farmers by personal interview method. The schedule used for collection of data included information on socio-economic status of the farmers, information on agricultural and animal husbandry activities and other farm activities undertaken by the farmers. The Analytical tools used under this research study were Small area estimation techniques which include Broad area ratio estimation (BARE) to know the percentage of farmers involved in wheat growing activity. The percentage of wheat growing farmers in Bagalkot district is more (68 per cent) than Dharwad district (57.7 per cent). Multiple regressions models to know the relationship between wheat production and different weather parameters used and also to find out the significances of the all variables. There was a significant effect between wheat production and the variables like total area under wheat crop, fertilizer consumption as well as rainfall. The estimates of wheat yield by SRSWOR sampling per unit method were used to assess the more precise estimates of wheat yield by sample survey and lastly the researcher has concluded the efficacy of the smaller areas to larger areas by different estimators and their efficiencies.Thesis