Sankhala, GopalKAMBALE, PARASHURAM2023-10-172023-10-172020https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810199028The Farmer FIRST programme is an ICAR initiative to move beyond the production and productivity, to privilege the small holder agriculture complex, diverse and risk prone realties of majority of the farmers by enhancing the farmers – scientists interface. Under this programme ICAR- NDRI, Karnal has undertaken the project entitled “Capacity building of resource poor farmers in Paddy-Wheat cum Dairy production system through FFP under irrigated agro-eco region of Haryana”. The present study was conducted in the five adopted villages of Karnal district of Haryana on 250 respondents which were selected proportionately under 14 advocated interventions. The data collection was done through semi-structured interview schedule and analyzed to draw meaningful results. The study revealed that majority of the respondents (44.80%) were middle aged with middle level education(40.40%) ,had medium sized family (86.00%),medium level of family education status (54.00%),membership in one organization(61.60%),agriculture as primary occupation (97.20%),having medium size land holding (37.60%), small herd size(41.60%),with medium level of milk production (55.60%),milk consumption(40.80%) and milk sale (51.20%),belonged to medium income group (43.20%) with medium level of experience in dairying (58.00%) with high level of extension contact (52.40%) and medium level of mass media exposure(66.00%).The highest knowledge was seen in Mastitis control (98.21%) followed by SMS portal (96.67%) and round the year fodder production (95.71%).Under the economic impact assessment the benefit-cost ratios of different interventions were as follows; IPM in paddy (2.69),INM in wheat (2.54),IWM in wheat (2.35) ,fodder maize production (2.80),Cucumber cultivation (4.88) and in case of dairy based interventions; balanced feeding (1.83), bypass fat supplementation (2.99),mineral mixture supplements (5.37),Theileriosis vaccination (74.88), Theileriosis treatment (10.19), Mastitis diagnosis (41.20) and Mastitis treatment (85.75);respectively. The net returns of VIREN Dairy were found to be Rs.14,34,400/year. The major positive feedback in case of crop interventions were increase in crop yields and returns, reduced weed infestation due to IWM practices, reduced pest infestation due to IPM practices and improvement in soil health due to dhaincha cultivation. In case of dairy intervention; increase in milk yield and returns, improvement in animal health and reproductive efficiency and better control and management of diseases. Major negative feedbacks in case of vegetable based cropping system; preference of farmers to cultivate Pencil variety of pea than the Pusa Pragati due to bunching of fruits which save the labour. In case of dairy based intervention major negative feedback were inadequate availability of bypass fat supplements, preference over purchase of balanced feed from the market, difficulty in purchasing of 300 doses vaccine container and management and filling of liquid nitrogen in the container by a single or small group of farmers. This project has socio-economic impact on the farmers of the study area.EnglishThesis