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Post-adoption behaviour of farmers towards soil and water conservation technologies of watershed management in India

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Title Post-adoption behaviour of farmers towards soil and water conservation technologies of watershed management in India
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Creator Gopal Lal Bagdi
Prasanta Kumar Mishra
Ravi Sankar Kurothe
Swarn Lata Arya
Shekhargouda Linganagouda Patil
Ashok Kumar Singh
Bankey Bihari
Om Prakash Ashok Kumar
Palanisamy Sundarambal
 
Subject Post-adoption; Soil and water conservation; Watershed Management
 
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The Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (IISWC) and its Research Centres have developed many successful model
watershed projects in India in the past and implemented many Soil and Water Conservation (SWC) technologies for sustainable
watershed management. While many evaluation studies were conducted on these projects in the past, there has been no assessment
of the post-adoption status of the SWC technologies over a longer period. 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 in the post watershed programme. Therefore, it was realized that the postadoption
behaviour of beneficiary farmers who have adopted different soil and water conservation technologies for watershed
management projects should be studied in detail. The research study was initiated in 2012 as a core project at Vasad as the lead
Centre along with IISWC headquarter Dehradun, and Centres Agra, Bellary, Chandigarh, Datia, Kota & Ooty, with the specific
objectives of the study to measure the extent of post-adoption behaviour (continued-adoption, discontinuance, technological gap,
diffusion and infusion) of farmers towards the adopted SWC technologies of watershed management. In the present study various
indices regarding continued adoption, dis-adoption (discontinuance), technological gap, diffusion, infusion regarding soil and
water conservation technologies for watershed management were developed for measurement of post-adoption behaviour of
farmers. It was revealed that a little less than three-fourth (73%) of SWC technologies continued to be adopted and more than onefourth
(27%) were discontinued by farmers. Out of the total continue adopted SWC technologies by farmers, a little less than onefifth
(19%) of technologies continued to be adopted with a technological gap. More than one-fourth (28%) of SWC technologies
were also diffused to other farmers’ fields in nearby villages and on an average 1.2 technologies were also infused into the farmers'
fields from outside by their own efforts in the watersheds developed by the IISWC and its Centres.
&2015 International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation and China Water and Power Press. Production
and Hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
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Date 2020-05-22T10:14:34Z
2020-05-22T10:14:34Z
2015-08-18
 
Type Research Paper
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/36144
 
Language English
 
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