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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FARMING PERFORMANCE OF FARM WOMEN IN RICE BASED FARMING SYSTEM IN ANDHRA PRADESH

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Title A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF FARMING PERFORMANCE OF FARM WOMEN IN RICE BASED FARMING SYSTEM IN ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Creator VIJAYA LAKSHMI, P.
 
Contributor RAMESHKUMAR REDDY, P.
 
Subject participation, biological phenomena, crops, economic systems, economics, yields, manpower, productivity, selection, farming systems
FARMING PERFORMANCE, FARM WOMEN, RICE, FARMING SYSTEM IN ANDHRA PRADESH
 
Description Any understanding of the process of production particularly agriculture and related
production would remain incomplete if the farming performance of women are not
analysed. Women in rural Areas form the most important productive work force. In India.
as high as 76 per cent of rural population is engaged in agricultural production and rural
women comprise 50 per cent of agricultural work force. India’s 20 per cent of cultivators
are women who are the “principal farmers” and their participation in agriculture in Andhra
Pradesh is 70-96 per cent in all stages of crop raising and animal husbandry, starting from
land preparation to harvest and post- harvest processing.
Farming systems approach has been used recently in an effort to increase land
Productivity and farmer welfare where crop and animal husbandry complement and
supplement each other and provide gainful employment to the farm women throughout the
year. The basic socio-economic unit in rural development are not men farmers alone but
rural households including all activities. The present study was therefore undertaken with a
view to demystify the farming performance of farm women in rice based farming system
(comprising agriculture-rice; horticulture vegetables/flowers; and animal husbandry -
dairy/poultry enterprises). An effort was made to analyse their, decision making pattern and
their farming performance and production problems.
Ex post facto research design was used in the investigation. The state Andhra
Pradesh was selected purposively. The study was conducted in three districts and selected
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purposively one district from each geographical region with an intension to represent all
the three regions. Three mandals were selected randomly in each selected district. Thus, a
total of nine mandals were selected for the study. Two villages were selected from each
selected mandal. Ten farm women were selected from each village. A total of 180 farm
women were selected from three categories (large, medium and small) based on their farm
size by employing stratified random sampling method. The characteristics of farm women
were treated as independent variables, while farming performance formed the dependent
variable. The salient findings are as under.
The profile analysis indicated that most of the farm women of all categories were
middle aged, with primary school education, born in village with small farm size having
10-20 years of experience in farming, medium annual income, half of the farm women
belonged to forward caste with medium family support. More than seventy per cent had no
social participation with medium innovativeness, medium self confidence, medium
achievement motivation, medium economic orientation. More than forty per cent had
medium risk management medium extension contact with more than sixty per cent had low
extension participation with low training undergone and fifty per cent of information
seeking and medium decision making pattern.
The small farm women had the highest mean score i.e., 89.18 and the large farm
women had the least mean score of 73.32 in respect of decision making pattern. The
analysis of data reveals that there was significant difference of scores between small farm
women and that of medium farm women as well as small farm women and large farm
women in respect of decision making pattern in rice based farming system. Whereas the
mean scores of decision making pattern between medium and large farm women did not
differ significantly. In other words small farm women had better decision making pattern
than large and medium farm women in rice based farming system.
The overall farming performance between large and small farm women differed
significantly. Hence, it was concluded that there was significant difference in the mean
scores of large and small; large and medium farm women in respect of overall farming
performance. In other words, the large farm women had the highest mean score of 395.0
followed by medium farm women (378.86). The small farm women had the least mean
score of 373.62 in respect of overall farming performance.
Thus, it could be summarized that the large farm women had the highest mean
scores in respect of cropping intensity, crop yield index, milk yield index and level of
adoption, expansion/diversification index and overall farming performance. The medium
farm women had the highest mean scores with regard to commercialization index.
There was negative and significant relationship between farm size, annual income
of the family and economic orientation and farming performance.
The combined contribution of eighteen variables had significant relationship. Large
farm women had significant relationship with age achievement motivation and extension
contact. While medium farm women had significant relationship with annual income of the
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family and extension contact. Small farm women had significant relationship with farm size
and innovativeness. The selected eighteen independent variables were able to explain
44.70 per cent variation in the farming performance of pooled sample of farm women.
The combined contribution of eighteen variables had significant relationship. In
Andhra region annual income of the family and information seeking had positive and
significant relationship with farming performance. The selected eighteen independent
variables were able to explain 56.60 per cent variation in the farming performance. In
Rayalaseema region annual income of the family and risk management had significant
relationship with farming performance. The selected seventeen independent variables were
able to explain 54.40 per cent variation in the farming performance. In telangana region
farming experience, annual income of the family, social participation, innovativeness
economic orientation had positive and significant relationship. The selected eighteen
independent variables were able to explain 59.30 per cent variation in the farming
performance
Major production problems observed in three regions: Labor scarcity is a major
(91.60%) problem followed by non-availability of veterinary facilities at door step(90%),
non-availability of timely technical guidance(90%), lack of crop insurance(76.60%), nonavailability
of supply of fertilizers in time(75%), high cost if inputs (70%), high cost of
feed (70%)are important problems in Andhra region. Non-availability of veterinary
facilities at door step(85%) is a major problem followed by labor scarcity(80%), lack of
crop insurance(70%), non-availability of quality pesticides(68.30%), non-availability of
quality seeds in time(68.30%), non-availability of required fertilizers in time (63.30%),
cost if inputs (63.30%) are important problems in Rayalaseema region and Non-availability
of fertilizers (81.60%) is a problem followed by non-availability of quality pesticides(75%),
high cost of feed (75%), labor scarcity(70%), lack of crop insurance(68.30%), high cost if
inputs (65%), non-availability of quality seeds (63.30%) are important problems in
Telangana region.
 
Date 2016-06-10T12:31:01Z
2016-06-10T12:31:01Z
2013
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/67171
 
Language en
 
Relation ;D9297
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N. G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY