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ANALYSIS OF FARMING SYSTEM APPROACHES UNDER PUNJAB CONDITIONS

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Title ANALYSIS OF FARMING SYSTEM APPROACHES UNDER PUNJAB CONDITIONS
 
Creator Ravinder Singh
 
Subject irrigation
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Description The present study entitled “Analysis of farming system approaches under Punjab conditions”
was undertaken to study the most profitable farming system and high employment generating
farming system under Punjab conditions. A list of awardee farmers was taken from
Directorate of Extension Education, PAU Ludhiana, and all of them were respondents for
study. It comprised of 60 awardee farmers by PAU Ludhiana for their achievements in
agriculture sector. The data were collected with the help of interview schedule by
personally interviewing the respondents. The results of the study revealed that the
majority of the respondents (96.67%) were males and (3.33%) respondents were females. The
(50%) of the respondents were having the educational level of matric, (45%) of the
respondents were graduates, about (3.44%) respondents were post graduates and rest 1.67
percent were illiterate. Majority of respondents (63.3%) lived in nuclear families and (36.67
%) respondents belonged to joint families with (54.61%) owned land and (45.38%) leased-in
land structure. Majority of the members having agriculture as a main source of income with
high (88.33%) extension contacts, medium mass media exposure and (73.33%) medium
social participation. All farmers have different integrated farming systems like crop + dairy,
crop + floriculture, crop + fruits, crop + poultry, crop + vegetable, crop + beekeeping etc. It
can be observed that majority of respondents i.e. 46 respondents (76.677%) had crop + dairy
farming system. 3 respondents (5%) had crops + poultry, 7 respondents (11.67%) had crops +
beekeeping, 2 respondents (3.33%) had crop + forestry, 10 respondents (16.67%) had crops +
fruits, and 5 respondents (8.33%) had crops + floriculture farming system. Among all the
farming systems crops + floriculture farming system was the most profitable farming system
with highest net returns of Rs.91824 and crops + poultry was least profitable farming system
with net returns Rs. 58057. From the point of view from employment generation the highest
employment generating integrated farming system was crop + poultry which generate 94.79
days/annum/ha and least employment generating integrated farming system was crops
+dairying farming system which generate 61.46 days/annum/ha.
 
Date 2017-01-03T15:59:04Z
2017-01-03T15:59:04Z
2013
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/94239
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
application/pdf
 
Publisher Punjab Agricultural University