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Post-adoption behaviour of farmers towards soil and water conservation technologies of watershed management in semi-arid regions of Gujarat

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Title Post-adoption behaviour of farmers towards soil and water conservation technologies of watershed management in semi-arid regions of Gujarat
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Creator G. L. Bagdi
 
Subject Post-adoption, Soil and water conservation, Watershed management
 
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ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (IISWC), Research Centre
(RC), Vasad in Anand district of Gujarat has developed five model watershed projects
in the past and implemented number of soil and water conservation (SWC)
technologies for sustainable watershed management. Though many evaluation studies
were conducted in the past but post-adoption status of the SWC technologies over a
longer period had not been assessed. It was imperative to appraise the behaviour of the
farmers with regard to the continuance or discontinuance of the technologies adopted,
diffusion or infusion that took place and technological gaps that occurred in due course
of time after completion of the project. Therefore, it was realized that the post-adoption
behaviour of beneficiary farmers who adopted different SWC technologies during
watershed management projects, should be studied in detail. The research study was
initiated in 2012 as research project at ICAR-IISWC, RC, Vasad, district Anand,
Gujarat, with the specific objective to measure the extent of post-adoption behaviour of
farmers towards adopted SWC technologies of watershed management. In the study,
various indices regarding continue adoption, discontinuance, technological gap,
diffusion, infusion regarding SWC technologies for watershed management were
developed. It was revealed that more than three-fourth (79.7%) of SWC technologies
were continued and one-fifth (20.3%) were discontinued by the farmers. Out of the
total continued adopted SWC technologies by farmers, one-third (33.7%) of
technologies were adopted with technological gap. About fifty percent (48.0%) of
SWC technologies were also diffused to other farmers' fields in nearby villages and on
an average 1.3 number of technologies were also infused from outside by farmers' own
efforts in the watersheds.
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Date 2019-06-24T11:03:49Z
2019-06-24T11:03:49Z
2019-01-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/20812
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Indian Association of Soil and Water Conservationists