Techno-socio-economic consequencies of national watershed development project for rainfed areas in Thiruvananthapuram district (Record no. 26607)
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| Classification number | 630.71 |
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| Personal name | Lakshmi S |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Techno-socio-economic consequencies of national watershed development project for rainfed areas in Thiruvananthapuram district |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Vellayani |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2000 |
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| Degree type | MSc |
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| Summary, etc. | The study entitled "Techno-socio-economic consequences <br/>of NWDPRA in Thiruvananthapuram district" was undertaken tc <br/>assess the techno-socio-economic consequences on beneficiaries <br/>due to the implementation of NWDPRA. An attempt was also made <br/>to identify the constraints perceived by the farmers and <br/>extension agents. <br/>The study was conducted in the four watersheds, one <br/>from each t a l u k of Thiruvananthapuram district which was <br/>selected randomly. A sample of hundred beneficiaries was <br/>selected according to the probability proportional to size of <br/>the beneficiaries in the selected watershed areas. Data were <br/>collected through well structured and pretested i n t e r v i e v <br/>schedule. <br/>The study revealed the following: <br/>Majority of the farmers had small land holdings. Most <br/>of the farmers received only medium level of technical <br/>guidance. <br/>The percept ions of the major i t y of respondents about <br/>the availability of low cost watershed technologies, <br/>observability of the innovation and complexity of the <br/>innovation were medium. <br/> <br/>About three-fourths of the farmers had a favourable <br/>attitude towards watershed development programmes. Most of the <br/>farmers had medium level of extension participation, mass media <br/>exposure and economic motivation. <br/>More than half of the respondents did not attend any <br/>training programme related to watershed management. <br/>More than half of the respondents had only medium <br/>I eve 1 0 f k now led g e i n wa t e r s he d p 1 ann i n g , i nn 0 vat i v e n e ss, <br/>indebtedness and orientation towards incentives. <br/>Majority of the farmers followed medium level of <br/>cropping intensity. <br/>The adoption of the watershed management practices by <br/> the farmers was only at medium level. Social status of the <br/>farmers was on average level. <br/>The perception of the farmers about the employment <br/>generated was low and the perception about the increase in <br/>resource use efficiency was medium. <br/>About half of the respondents were of the perception <br/>that the increase in income and productivity was low on account <br/>of NWDPRA. <br/>Farm size, availability of low cost watershed <br/>technologies, observabiiity of the innovation, attitude towards <br/> <br/>watershed development programmes, extension participation, mass <br/>media exposure, training participation, knowledge in w~tershed <br/>planning and cropping intensity had positive and significant <br/>association with adoption of watershed management practices. <br/>Complexity of innovation and indebtedness had negative <br/>association with adoption. <br/>Social status of farmers had positive association with <br/>farm size, technical guidarice, availability of low cost <br/>watershed technologies, observabi 1 i t y of innovat ion, at t i tude <br/>towards watershed development programmes, extension <br/>participation, training participation, knowledge in watershed <br/>planning, innovativeness and orientation towards incentives. <br/>Indebtedness had negative association with social status of <br/>farmers. <br/>Employment generation had positive and significant <br/>relationship with indebtedness and orientation towards <br/>incentives. <br/>Farm size, technical guidance, availability of low <br/>cost watershed technologies, observability of the innovation, <br/>attitude towards watershed development programmes, extension <br/>participation, training participation and knowledge in <br/>watershed planning had positive and significant relationship <br/>with increase in resource use efficiency. <br/> <br/>The variables farm size, availability of low cost <br/>watershed technologies, observability of the innovation, <br/>attitude towards watershed development programmes, extension <br/>participation, mass media exposure, economic motivation, <br/>knowledge in watershed planning, innovativeness and cropping <br/>intensity were found to have positive and significant <br/>relationship with increase in income. Indebtedness had a <br/>negative relationship with increase in income. <br/>Increase in productivity had a positive and <br/>significant relationship with farm size, availability of low <br/>cost watershed technologies, observability of innovation, <br/>at tit ude towards watershed deve lopment programmes, ex ens ion <br/>participation, mass media exposure, training p a r t i c i pa t i on , <br/>knowledge in watershed planning and cropping intensity. <br/>Indebtedness had a negative relationship with increase in <br/>productivity. ~ <br/>Stepwise regression analysis revealed that availa <br/>bility of low cost watershed technologies and farm size <br/>contributed to 76 per cent of variation in adoption of <br/>watershed management practices. <br/>The results of s t e pw i s e regression analysis revealed <br/>that the variables farm size, mass media exposure, orientation <br/>towards incentives, technical guidance, observability of <br/>innovation, innovativeness and attitude towards watershed <br/> <br/>development programmes contributed to 54 per cent of variation <br/>in social status of farmers. <br/>The important constraint perceived by the farmers was <br/>inadequacy of funds provided to land owners in NWDPRA and the <br/>important constraint perceived by the extension agent was <br/>inadequate co-ordination among the implementing agencies of <br/>NWDPRA. <br/>The results of Spearman's rank order correlation of <br/>constraints revealed that there was agreement between farmers <br/>and extension agents with respect to the constraints in NWDPRA. <br/><br/> |
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| Personal name | Balakrishna Pillai G (Guide) |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810104152">http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810104152</a> |
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