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An evaluation study of farmer's field school on soybean mangement practices conducted by agriculture department of tikamgarh district of madhya pradesh

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Title An evaluation study of farmer's field school on soybean mangement practices conducted by agriculture department of tikamgarh district of madhya pradesh
 
Creator Parmar, Lokendra
 
Contributor Singh, S.P.
 
Subject EXTENSION EDUCATION
 
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Farmer Field School has spread rapidly to all continents since their first introduction 1989 in Indonesia, where Integrated Pest Management Farmer Field School were developed to help farmers deal with the problem of rice brown plant hoppers in irrigated rice. As the concept has spread, it has been adapted for a wide range of crop.

The Farmer Field School concept has been developed for beyond Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in rice. Now Farmer Field School is being practicing in over 30 countries. In India, Farmer Field School is introduced in 1989 under the assistance provided by the FAO of the United Nations Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programme on cotton implemented on a pilot basis. Farmer Field School has been adopted in most of the crops especially high valued crops like cotton, pigeonpea, groundnut, maize, soybean etc.

Soybeans were initially introduced in Madhya Pradesh due to the main reason for this was that in Madhya Pradesh cultivated land during the monsoon season was kept fallow to preserve moisture for the sowing season. The short duration of new varieties of soybeans did not affect the sowing time of the second crops after the monsoon season. The regional spread of soybeans is concentrated in and around the State of Madhya Pradesh, which occupies 60 per cent of the soybean area of the country and 10 per cent of the total cropped area in India. The soybean crop occupies more than 23 per cent of the gross cropped area in the State of Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh is recognized as soybean state in our country. In Madhya Pradesh soybean cultivated in about 62.605 lakhs hectare area with the production of 59.475 lakhs metric tonnes while, in Tikamgarh district soybean is cultivated in 0.737 lakhs hectares area with the production of 0.792 lakhs metric tonnes. In soybean cultivation one main short coming is observed that soybean yield in M.P., and area under study, is low (10.1 q./ha. a decade average) compared to other major soybean-growing countries (more than 20 q./ha.). It has been observed likely to remain more or less stagnant since soybean was established at early stage. Despite this, the area of cultivation in Madhya Pradesh, and India, continues to increase at a fast rate.
Farmers Field School (FFS) were implemented in Madhya Pradesh also to motivate the farmers for adoption of improved crop production technology and enhance sustainability of crop production systems. Keeping this point in mind, the present study entitled “An evaluation study of Farmers Field School on soybean management practices conducted by department of Agriculture, Tikamgarh district in Madhya Pradesh” has been under taken with the following specific objectives.
Objective:
1. To examine the farmer’s selection process, their profile and Farmers’ Field
School implementation.
2. To assess knowledge, attitude and practices of Farmers’ Field School members and non members regarding soybean management practices.
3. To identify factor influencing knowledge, attitude and practices on soybean management of Farmers’ Field School members.
The investigation has been carried out in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh due to well known area by researcher which would become easy for data collection. There are 6 blocks in Tikamgarh district, out of which one block

i.e. Tikamgarh block has been selected purposively for the study because in this block maximum Farmer Field School has be implemented by the Department of Agriculture as compared to other blocks. The Tikamgarh block comprises of 154 villages. The list of villages where Farmer Field School on soybean management practices has all ready being conducted by Department of Agriculture was obtained from the department personnel. The list of villages showed that only in
3 villages namely Kathi, Jamdhar and Manduar the Farmer Field School on soybean management practices was conducted. Therefore, all 3 villages was universe of study area. The list of Farmers’ Field School participants from selected 3 villages was obtained from the concerned personnel of Department of Agriculture. It was come to know that from each village 28 farmers were the participants in the programme of Farmer Field School. Thus, total 84 participants were the members of Farmer Field School on soybean management practices. All 84 Farmer Field School members were used for study as census method. To assess the impact of knowledge, attitude and practices of Farmer Field School on soybean management practices, further, equal number of non participants i.e.
84 how were not the member of Farmer Field School has been selected randomly from the same 3 villages. Thus, total sample size comprised of 168 (84
Farmer Field School participants and 84 Farmer Field School non participants).
 
Date 2016-07-30T14:18:34Z
2016-07-30T14:18:34Z
2014
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/70309
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher JNKVV