Participatory rural appraisal approach for the identification of the problems and development of village agricultural development plan of saalaivembu village

Abstract

Successful research programmes can be proposed after understanding the grassroot problems faced by the farmers for which participatory rural approach paves way. The present study was carried out in Saalaivembu village of Coimbatore district. The PRA tools used include transect walk, agro-ecological mapping, social mapping, time trend, seasonal calendar, gender analysis, time line, livelihood analysis, technology mapping, consequence diagram, problem – solving tree. Around eleven major problems were identified among which Labour scarcity, Wild animals problem and Pest problem in Banana were ranked first three position. The action plans for the various problems were formulated by the researchers which would serve as solution for the problems faced by the famers.