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- Adoption of True Potato Seed (TPS) Technology by the Potato Farmers of Tripura State
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1 Department of Agriculture, Agartala (Tripura), IN
2 Amity International Centre for Postharvest Technology and Cold Chain Management, Amity University, Noida (U.P.), IN
3 Department of Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Noida (U.P.), IN
4 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Divyodaya, West Tripura (Tripura), IN
1 Department of Agriculture, Agartala (Tripura), IN
2 Amity International Centre for Postharvest Technology and Cold Chain Management, Amity University, Noida (U.P.), IN
3 Department of Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Noida (U.P.), IN
4 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Divyodaya, West Tripura (Tripura), IN
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Agriculture Update, Vol 11, No 2 (2016), Pagination: 124-128Abstract
The study was carried out in all the erstwhile 4 (four) districts namely South Tripura, West Tripura, Dhalai and North Tripura with 240 potato farmers to ascertain adoption level of recommended practices TPS technology by the potato farmers, find out the relationship between personal characteristics of TPS farmers and adoption of TPS cultivation practice and reasons for nonadoption of TPS technology by the potato farmers. Out of 240 potato farmers 186 potato farmers have adopted the TPS technology fully (75 nos.) or partially (111 nos.). As per overall adoption, 40.32 percent of TPS farmers had high adoption behavior on TPS cultivation practices followed by medium adoption behaviour (33.33 %). Category wise, 48.00 per cent of the total marginal farmers (131 nos.) and 36.67 per cent of the total small farmers (75 nos.), 16.00 per cent of the total medium farmers (31 nos.); and 1.33 per cent of the total big farmers (3 nos.) have adopted TPS technology fully. The adoption of TPS cultivation technology was found to be positively and significantly correlated with their education, social participation, innovativeness, scientific orientation, economic motivation, knowledge at 1 per cent level of significance and mass media participation and contact with extension agency at 5 per cent level of significance. Different TPS cultivation practice wise maximum adoption were found in time, spacing and depth of seed sowing in nursery bed. Reasons for non-adoption of TPs technology by different categories of potato farmers showed that complexity in nature of technology, scarcity in skilled labour, lack of technical skill, risky technology and non-economical, no knowledge and lack of awareness were the major reasons for non-adoption of TPS technology in the study area.Keywords
Potato Farmers, Extent of Adoption, Credit Orientation, Economic Motivation, Innovativeness, Scientific Orientation, TPS Cultivation Practices.
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- Can farm mechanization enhance small farmers’ income? Lessons from Lower Shivalik Hills of the Indian Himalayan Region
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1 Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi 110 012, India
1 Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi 110 012, India
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Current Science, Vol 123, No 5 (2022), Pagination: 667-676Abstract
Indian agriculture being fraught with fragmented land holdings, the economic viability of farm mechanization has forever remained a debatable issue. Here we determine the socio-agro-economic impact of seed-cum-fertilizer drill and zero tillage through different methods with ex-ante and ex-post approaches. Results depict that labour costs had reduced by almost 80% and seed usage by 20%. The seed-cum-fertilizer drill and zero tillage adopter saved Rs 3764.10 and 4047.54 respectively, from 1 ha. The machinery also increased the yield of HD 2967 wheat variety by 13.39 and 6.0 q/ha, and decreased seed rate by 27.71 and 24.20 kg/ha respectively, as evident from the results of the SUR model. The growth of the farm machinery sector is hindered by machine cost, resource-poor farmers and inaccessibility of agricultural technology. A few suggestions on the critical aspects are made here based on the application of technology in different states of India to implement suitable policies for the economic benefit of farmersKeywords
Efficacy measure, farm mechanization, labour cost, socio-agro-economic impact, synchronous bootstrap-ping.Full Text
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