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STUDY ON UTILIZATION PATTERN OF AGRICULTURAL LAND BY THE FARMERS OF RAJNANDGAON DISTRICT OF CHHATTISGARH

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Title STUDY ON UTILIZATION PATTERN OF AGRICULTURAL LAND BY THE FARMERS OF RAJNANDGAON DISTRICT OF CHHATTISGARH
 
Creator Digambar, Bisane Manish
 
Contributor Khan, M.A.
Sharma, M.L.
Shrivastava, L,K.
(Smt) Shukla, S.
 
Subject UTILIZATION PATTERN, AGRICULTURAL LAND, FARMERS, RAJNANDGAON DISTRICT, CHHATTISGARH
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Description The present study was carried out during 2015-16 in the periphery of Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh state. This study aims to assess details about utilization pattern of agricultural land and different types of soil. This study was conducted in randomly selected 12 villages of Dongargarh, Rajnandgaon, and Khairagarh blocks with sample comprised of 144 respondents. The data collection was done personally using interview schedule by the researcher.
The findings of the study shows that most of the respondents belonged to middle age group (36-55 years), educated up to high school and higher secondary level and had medium (5 to 8 members) families. Majority of the respondents had participation in cooperative society. Mostly respondents had farming experience more than 20 years and cent per cent of the respondents were performing agriculture as a majority occupation and having low annual income (up to 1 lakh). Friends, relative, neighbor and television were the major sources of information of the respondents for seeking information about rice cultivation. Most of the respondents were always contacted with Rural Agriculture Extension Officer (RAEO) and krishak mitras, sometimes contact with Senior Agriculture Development officer (SADO) and never contact with Agriculture scientists. Majority of respondents were having medium level of risk orientation.
The study revealed that the maximum number of respondents having medium size of land holding (2.1 to 4 ha) and most of the respondents were having Vertisols (kanhar). Maximum area was under rainfed condition. Majority of the respondents were having tube well irrigation facility. In kharif season, maximum area was found under rice crop. Majority of the respondents (75.69%) cultivated mahamaya variety, chickpea was the most popular second crop. Most of the respondents were adopted rice-chickpea cropping pattern.
The findings also revealed that the knowledge level of respondents about production technology of rice crop, highest knowledge (89.36%) was recorded about time of sowing and knowledge gap (60.65%) exists in disease control. As regards to level of adoption, the highest adoption level was recorded in field preparation (62.30%), while, 87.54% technological gap were recorded in seed treatment.
It was found that more than 46.53 per cent of the respondents were fully utilizing their land for crop husbandry. Respondents had taken only two crops in their available land. About 43 per cent respondents had intensity of cropping between 101-125 per cent. Farmers of selected area were more utilizing their available land for crop husbandry purpose.
 
Date 2016-12-15T13:07:18Z
2016-12-15T13:07:18Z
2016
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier 139 p.
http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/90304
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur