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

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Title Post-adoption behaviour of farmers towards agronomic soil and water conservation technologies of watershed management in India
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Creator G.L. Bagdi
S.L. Arya,
P. Sundarambal
Om Prakash
Bankey Bihari
Ashok Kumar
A.K. Singh
R.B. Meena
S.L. Patil
M.N. Ramesha
 
Subject Agronomic SWC technologies
Post-adoption
Watershed management
 
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ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (IISWC) and its Research
Centres have developed many model watershed projects in India in the past and
implemented many soil and water conservation (SWC) technologies for sustainable
watershed management. Although many evaluation studies were conducted on these
watershed projects in the past, assessment of the post-adoption status of different
agronomic SWC technologies over a longer period has not been done yet. It was
imperative to appraise the behaviour of the farmers with regard to the continuance and
discontinuance of the technologies adopted, diffusion and infusion that took place and
technological gaps that occurred in due course of time on post watershed programme.
Therefore, it was realized that the post-adoption behaviour of beneficiary farmers
should be studied in detail, who have adopted different agronomic SWC technologies
during implementation of watershed projects. The research study was carried out
during 2012-15 as core project at Vasad as lead Centre alongwith ICAR-IISWC
headquarter Dehradun, and centres Agra, Bellary, Chandigarh, Datia, Kota and Ooty,
with the specific objectives of the study to measure the extent of post-adoption
behaviour (continue-adoption, discontinuance, technological gap, and diffusion) of
farmers towards adopted agronomic SWC technologies of watershed management. In
the present study various indices regarding continue adoption, discontinuance,
technological gap and diffusion towards agronomic SWC technologies for watershed
management were developed for measurement of post-adoption behaviour of farmers.
It was revealed that about sixty percent (58.9%) of agronomic SWC technologies were
continued adopted and about forty percent (41.1%) were discontinued by farmers. Out
of the total continued adopted agronomic SWC technologies by farmers, little more
than forty percent (43.7%) of technologies were continued adopted with technological
gap. About one-third (32.2%) of agronomic SWC technologies were also diffused to
other farmers' fields in nearby villages from the watersheds developed by the ICARIISWC
and its centres.
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Date 2023-04-07T06:28:00Z
2023-04-07T06:28:00Z
2022-07-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Not Available
0970-3349
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/76760
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Indian Society of Soil and Water Conservationists