Knowledge Level of ATMA Beneficiaries towards the Activities of Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA)

This study was carried out in randomly selected 10 villages of three purposively selected blocks i.e. Ambikapur, Lundra, Surajpur located in the Surguja district of Chhattisgarh state during 2011-12. The study aims to assess the risk orientation and level of knowledge of beneficiaries about the different activities of ATMA. A total of 100 beneficiary and 50 non-beneficiaries farmers were selected randomly. Thus the total 150 farmers were selected as respondents. The data collection was done by the use of interview schedule through personal interview. Data were analyzed with help of suitable statistical tools. The findings reveal that the majority of the respondents had medium risk bearing capability and the findings revealed that majority 79 per cent of the beneficiaries had medium level of knowledge about programme scheme, 46 per cent beneficiaries had no knowledge about training programme in ATMA. About 50 per cent beneficiaries had medium level of knowledge about demonstration programme, 36 per cent had no knowledge about visit schedule in ATMA and 76 per cent had low level of knowledge about others programme in ATMA.