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Developing Model for Diffusion of Farmers’ Innovations for Maximizing Farm Income: Indian Agricultural Research Institute Experiences

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Title Developing Model for Diffusion of Farmers’ Innovations for Maximizing Farm Income: Indian Agricultural Research Institute Experiences
 
Creator Manjeet Singh Nain
Rashmi Singh
J. R. Mishra
Anil Kumar Singh
 
Subject Farmers’ innovations, Scalability, Social media, Networking, Innovators’ meet
 
Description Indian farmers have also been continuously improving available technologies for more efficient and cost-effective farming, which resulted in numerous innovations over the generations and helped in improving farming practices ensuring better livelihood options. The action research was carried out from 2015 to 2021 to document, verify, scalability testing, developing, sharing and scaling mechanisms, identifying support mechanisms and finally devising scaling mechanisms for higher profits, reduced costs, enterprise development, enhanced employment opportunities, and capacities, growth and survival. The results of various interventions showed that FLIs were mostly reconfiguration of existing resources giving incremental adjustments. All innovators studied expressed dissatisfaction with the pre-existing economic returns of farming thus pushing them to innovate. The economic effect of the farmers’ innovations in terms of changes in income, changes in savings of stakeholders, changes in capital owned, and changes in credit availability were expressed on average.. The innovations that were economically viable and found sustainable sources of funding were able to translate into entrepreneurial ventures having higher income and profits. The conceptual model for scaling farmers’ innovations was found effective based on experiences and interventions.
 
Publisher Indian Society of Extension Education, ICAR- Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi
 
Date 2024-04-06
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer reviewed Research Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJEE/article/view/147532
10.48165/IJEE.2024.60120
 
Source Indian Journal of Extension Education; Vol. 60 No. 1 (2024): Indian Journal of Extension Education; 105-110
2454-552X
0537-1996
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJEE/article/view/147532/53679
 
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