Queries and Expectations of Lac Farmers Uneder One to One Programme: An Analysis

Abstract

ICAR- Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums (IINRG), Namkum, Ranchi, Jharkhand has offered One to One programme(OTOP) in a form of consultancy services to different stakeholders of lac. In this programme the farmers were in direct (one to one) interaction with the experts of Institute on different aspects of lac. The objective of this paper is to understand the Queries and expectations of different lac growers. The study was planned at TOT Division based on queries raised by the lac farmers. Queries and expectation were classified in seven different categories of lac cultivation practices like plantation raising and lac cultivation on Flemingia semialata, general lac cultivation, lac cultivation on ber trees, lac cultivation on palas trees, pest management, processing of lac and lac marketing. Queries and expectations were evaluated by the testing tool using proportions and percentage as the main statistical analysis. During 2013, the study revealed that queries and expectations of lac farmers were plantation raising and lac cultivation on Flemingia semialata (66.8%), general lac cultivation (25.4%), pest management (4.2%), lac cultivation on ber trees (1.4%), lac marketing (1.1%), processing of lac (0.7%) and lac cultivation on palas trees (0.4%) respectively and ranked as first, second, third, fourth, fifth sixth and seventh respectively. The major queries comes from the state of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka respectively and ranked as first, second, third, fourth, fifth sixth, seventh, eighth, Ninth and tenth respectively. During 2014, the study also revealed that queries and expectations of lac farmers were plantation raising and lac cultivation on Flemingia semialata (37.6%), general lac cultivation (25.0%), lac marketing (9.5%), lac cultivation on palas trees (5.7%), lac cultivation on ber trees (5.1%), Training on lac (5.1%), processing of lac (3.8%), Lac cultivation on Kusum (3.8), pest management (2.8%), handicraft (0.9%) and lac cultivation on minor host plant (0.6%) respectively and ranked as first, second, third, fourth, fifth sixth seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh respectively. The major queries comes from the state of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Karnataka, Assam and Uttar Pradesh and respectively and ranked as first, second, third, fourth, fifth sixth, seventh and eighth respectively.