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STUDY ON TECHNOLOGICAL GAP, YIELD GAP AND UTlLlSATlON PATTERN OF SMALL MILLETS AMONG THE TRIBALS IN THE BASTAR PLATEAU ZONE OF CHHATTISGARH - .

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Title STUDY ON TECHNOLOGICAL GAP, YIELD GAP AND UTlLlSATlON PATTERN OF SMALL MILLETS AMONG THE TRIBALS IN THE BASTAR PLATEAU ZONE OF CHHATTISGARH - .
 
Creator Sahu, Rajesh Kumar
 
Contributor Sharma, Dr. M.L.
 
Subject YIELD GAP, MILLETS, TRIBALS, BASTAR, CHHATTISGARH
 
Description This study was focused to investigate the knowledge and adoption level
of millet growers, technological gap in the recommended package of practices of
small millets, the productivity of millets and moreover to document the consumption
pattern, alternate uses and marketing pattern of millets in the tribal belt of Bastar,
Chhattisgarh.
In this context, the present study was conducted in the four districts of
Bastar Plateau Zone of Chhattisgarh state during year 2008-09, where eighteen
villages from nine blocks were selected to obtain a sample of 270 millet growing
farmers as respondents. Data were collected through the personal interview, with the
help of interview schedule prepared in Hindi.
The study revealed that the respondents were educated up to primary
school level, living in a nuclear family with up to five members and having up to five
working member and had farming experience up to 30 years with membership of one
organization. The respondents were having up to 2.0 ha of land with Vertisols
(Gabhar) and Entisols (Tikra) type of soil with a meagre irrigation. They were
practicing agriculture labour with agriculture as their major occupation and earning up
to Rs. 25,0001- annually. They had acquired up to Rs. 5,0001- credit from the
cooperative society as crop loan for short term and repaid in kind.
They were having high conservatism, medium level of fatalism,
economic motivation, aspiration, risk orientation, management orientation and
medium cosmopoliteness. They were utilizing 2-4 sources of information major ones
being friends, RAE0 and radio.
They were cultivating at least two of the small millets on only 0.1 -0.2 ha
of land with local or unidentified varieties and held a favourable opinion towards
millets. They possessed a medium level of knowledge regarding major practices of
Small millets cultivation and had a high level of overall technological gap. . The
average productivity of kodo millet, little millet and finger millet was 4.1, 2.2 and 6.2 q
ha-', respectively in the study area. They were utilizing the major portion of the
produce for domestic consumption, in up to four forms. The millets were usually
utilised in boiled, fermented, unleavened bread, puffed, popped, fried & roasted,
deep fried, ready to eat and other forms.
The attainable yield gap between demonstration yield and average
farmers' yield was 7.88, 4.08 and 9.36 quintals for kodo millet, little millet and finger
millet, respectively. The overall loss percentage of average farmers' yield was to the
extent of 138.05, 164.39 and 125.56 per cent in the kodo millet, little millet and finger
millet, respectively, due to various biotic and abiotic factors.
The major constraints faced by the respondents were small size of land,
lack of knowledge regarding recommended technologies and low price of the
produce in the market. To overcome the constraints they suggested that the sale
rates of the produce should be increased, the improved seeds of HWs should be
provided and the government should purchase the millets just like other cereals.
 
Date 2016-02-10T10:32:47Z
2016-02-10T10:32:47Z
2010
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/64254
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur