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CONSTRAINT ANALYSIS OF RICE FARMERS OF THRISSUR DISTRICT OF KERALA

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Title CONSTRAINT ANALYSIS OF RICE FARMERS OF THRISSUR DISTRICT OF KERALA
 
Creator BALAKRISHNAN ARATHY
 
Contributor PRASAD, S.V
 
Subject rice, biological phenomena, marketing, markets, manpower, productivity, participation, crops, sowing, economics
THRISSUR DISTRICT, KERALA
 
Description Rice has shaped the cultures, diets and economies of thousands of millions of people in the world. India occupies first position in the area (44.6m ha) which is the highest area occupied by a single crop in the million-hectare plus countries in world during 2008 (USDA report). In Kerala, harvested area of rough rice in 2007 was 2,29,000ha and rough rice production stood at 8,19,000 tonnes.
Kerala was food deficient since its formation in the 1956 till recent times. The gap between production and requirement of the rice has been showing an increasing trend during the past decades. The deficiency was about 50 per cent in the 1960s and it is at an alarming level of 85 per cent in 2007-08. This is because of lot of constraints being faced by the rice farmers
Hence the study to analyze the constraints faced by the farmers in rice production in was undertaken. The investigation was carried out in two Taluks of Thrissur district of Kerala which were purposively selected, where rice is intensively grown. Ex- post- facto research design was adopted for the study. A sample of 120 farmers was randomly selected from six villages. The data were collected by personal interview method and analyzed by employing suitable statistical methods. Fourteen independent variables were subjected to statistical analysis for the purpose of categorization of the respondents and for studying their relationship with dependent variable
Majority of the rice farmers engaged in rice farming were old aged, with high school education, marginal farmers with medium farming experience, training undergone, credit orientation, social participation, mass media exposure, extension contact, economic motivation, scientific orientation, management orientation, innovativeness and risk orientation.
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Correlation analysis revealed that there was a negative and significant relationship between education, farm size, training undergone, credit orientation, social participation, extension contact, scientific orientation, management orientation and innovativeness of rice farmers with the constraints faced by them in rice farming. However, age, farming experience, mass media exposure, economic motivation and risk orientation had non significant relationship with the dependent variable constraints of rice farming.
Constraints expressed by rice farmers in rice production belonged to ten categories viz; Improper pesticides and weedicides as major crop production constraint high cost of inputs as major input constraint, scarcity of labour during peak periods as major labour constraint, occurrence of summer showers during harvest as major bio physical constraint, unavailability of suitable farm machinery as major farm machinery constraint, lack of proper storage facilities as major post harvest constraint, high rate of interest by the middle men as major financial constraint, fewer efforts of extension personnel as major extension constraint, involvement of middlemen as major marketing constraint and price gap between parboiled rice and rice grain major social constraint.
Training of extension personnel about the latest plant protection chemicals and weedicides, government subsidy to the farmers, implementation of contract labour schemes by Panchayat and local bodies, development of short duration rice varieties not to coincide with the summer showers, development of suitable farm implements, equipment and machinery for the operations like transplanting, weeding, harvesting etc, creation of proper storage facilities at Panchayat or Taluk levels, farmers should be given loans at very lower rates of interests through new schemes and programmes, improving the efforts of extension agencies and personnel, bringing reforms in the agricultural extension system by restructured technology dissemination system, involvement of middlemen should be avoided by the formation of cooperatives and farmers groups in marketing, the extension personnel should encourage the younger generations by making them to know the potential of agriculture were the major strategies proposed with respect to the ten categories of constraints respectively.
 
Date 2016-06-02T13:39:33Z
2016-06-02T13:39:33Z
2011
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/66639
 
Language en
 
Relation D8961;
 
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Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY