Journal of Agricultural Extension Management
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Participation of Tribal farmers in Vegetable Cultivation
Full text linkTribal women are mainly concerned with kitchen gardening where they grow all types of vegetables in the form of mixed cropping. Women\u27s participation in vegetable growing goes up to 98 percent. Males are generally engaged in crop cultivation, arrangement of inputs from the market etc. Keeping in view the vital role of women in vegetable cultivation in Meghalaya and Arunachal Prades
Improving employment strategies and potential for women and youth agricultural labour
No full textThe overwhelming growth of population has created more labour force and the number of unemployed rural women has been increasing. Unemployment has created serious problems in Indian society. The increasing unemployment and underemployment in families have accentuated poverty. Women become doubly underprivileged as members of rural poor and as women. Likewise, youth being a group with low status, tend to become easy victims of exploitation, discrimination and oppression and they suffer due to problems of unemployment. Moreover, the work involved in agriculture is seasonal in nature and agricultural labour have few avenues of employment during off season when they are unemployed or underemployed. The dwindling monsoon and its failure, seems to be the major reason for unemployment in Irrigated Agro Eco System, where the main source of irrigation is through canals. To enhance the quality of life of rural poor, they must be economically viable. Keeping these facts in mind, the present study was attempted with the objective of formulating strategies to improve the employment status and potential of farm women and youth agricultural labou
DAATTCs: A successful innovation in technology dissemination
Full text linkAgricultural extension involves the whole gamut of complex interactions between farmers, extension workers and researchers in the transfer of technology, eventually resulting in enhancing productivity and profitability to the farmer. This essentially involves testing, refining and dissemination of technologies flowing out of State, National and International Agricultural Research System
Indigenous technical knowledge of farmers in dry farming
Full text linkDry land agriculture in India is always a challenge, since crop production in dry land depends on the vagaries of monsoon. Dry land areas receive less than 750 mm rainfall. Out of the net sown area of 136.18m ha, the dry land accounts for 93.13 m ha (68.4%) and contributes 40 per cent of total human population, 60 per cent of cattle heads and 44 per cent to total food production in India (Kannaiyan et al., 2001). In Tamil Nadu, area under dry farming constitutes 52 per cent of the total cultivable area and contributes to 40 per cent of total food production. The productivity of crops grown .in dry land is not only low but also remains stagnant over years. Most of the areas of Tamil Nadu come under semiarid tropical climate, except the hilly regions and East coast. Out of 5.50 m ha of net sown area, nearly 3.20 m ha are rain fed (Kannaiyan et al., 2001
Information Sources used by Livestock Farmers in Iran
Full text linkThere has been growing global concern over the worsening problems of poverty, hunger and malnutrition in the world, particularly in developing countries during the past few decades. Since 1960, the total human population has increased by 75 percent, but in developing countries it has grown by 97 percent, compared to 28 percent in the industrialized world (Sansoucy, 1995a). One of the challenges facing the world over the next decades is preserving its natural resources while at the same time producing sufficient food to satisfy the demands of a growing human population. World population is expected to grow from 5.5 billion now to about eight billion in the year 2020. Specialists at the International Food Pol icy Research Institute (IFPRI) estimate that the current demand of 1.7 billion tons of cereal s and 206 million tons of meat, may rise by the year 2020 to 2.5-2.8 billion tons of cereals and at least 275- 310 million tons of meat (De Haan, et al., 1997). In spite of the huge progress achieved worldwide in food crop production, almost 800 million people in the developing world do not have enough to eat. If all the worlds \u27 undernourished people were gathered together, the population of the continent of the hungry would dwarf that of every other continent except Asia (Sansoucy, 1995b, FAO, 1999
Export Performance of Mango Fruit from India
Full text linkThe new economic policy initiated in early nineties in our country has ushered in the age of economic liberalization. Consequently, it has thrown up many challenges as well as opportunities for India\u27s agricultural exports in general and horticultural exports in particular. Even though the economic liberalization programme is primarily focused on agriculture, the strategy of reforms is aimed at creating a more favourable policy framework for agricultural development and much more needs to be done in this area. With the signing of the agreement on the Dunkel Draft Report, which gave rise to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in January 1995, the international trade situation has undergone a change, one of the main results of which will be to provide opportunities for enhanced agricultural exports over time. Trade in agricultural goods can play a significant role in promoting economic development, especially in developing countries where the majority of the population is engaged in agricultur
Extension Delivery Methods Preferred by Women Farmers in Nigeria
No full textAgriculture continues to be a predominant sector in Nigeria. The sector will face a greater challenge in the near future since food requirements will be doubled due to the continued population growth of 3 percent annually. Agricultural contribution to GDP has been 50 percent and the sector employs 85 percent of the total work force, of which over 50 percent are women, most of them engaged in unpaid work (World Bank 1989
Gender Differences in Learning styles of Extension Trainees
Full text linkTraining is a crucial and continuous input for any efficient and effective transfer of technology system. Basically~ training aims to improve the efficiency in performing the tasks by imparting new knowledge and skills besides inculcating new attitudes in the behavioural system of the learners. In the era of liberalization, the concept of training has undergone a sea change with its focus shift from \u27knowledge transfer\u27 to \u27capacity building\u27. This approach demands a conscious effort from all the actors involved in the training process i.e. the trainer, trainee and sponsoring organization to plan and execute the learning exercise in the light of learner capacities and need
Dynamics of Adoption of Recommended Rice Production Technologies among Migrant Farmers
Full text linkMigration is a complex social process and is symptomatic of basic economic and social change. Ever since the inception of the green revolution and irrigation development in certain areas, rural to rural migration has increased particularly during the last four decades. The increased inflow of migrant farmers has far reaching socioeconomic implications, as well as the overall agricultural development of the region, which warrant scientific investigation. It is recorded that in India, rural to rural migration is 59.30 per cent whereas rural to urban, urban to urban and urban to rural migration are 21.20, 12.95 and 6.25 per cent, respectively. In Karnataka it is 55 .00, 20.50, 32.50 and 8.20 per cent, respectively. Among intra-district, inter-district and inter-state migration in both India and Karnataka, intra-district migration is leading with 63.5 and 57.95 per cent, respectively (Patil, 1991). The push factors such as floods, droughts, natural calamities, poverty and indebtedness (economic factors), and strained relations (social factors) also cause migration (Gupta and Bhakoo, 1980; Gupta, 1991 and Kishore kumar and Bijimolbaby, 1997
Impact of Watershed Development Programmes on Adoption of Crop Production Technologies
Full text linkWatershed Development Programme has been carried out on large scale in India, with an annual allocation of funds to the tune of about Rs.1000 crores, with an objective of developing and stabilizing natural resources in addition to improving productivity of crops, employment opportunities to rural people, income generation and standard of living of rural people in arid/ semi-arid regions in India. During the past three decades, many crop production technologies were evolved and spread to farmers\u27 fields. Since 1983-84, technologies of dryland crops were also transferred to farmers\u27 fields effectively on watershed basis, as technological options and choices available to dryland farmers are many and varied and it may be a problem for farmers to choose a package of technologies suitable to their field