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Dwarka Prasad ¹, L. S. Bareth ¹, Deepak Chaturvedi ², Amit Kumar Keshri ³, Hemant Kumar Jhingoniya ⁴

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Bikaner (Rajasthan), IN
2 Directorate of Extension Education, S.K. Rajasthan Agricultural University, Bikaner (Rajasthan), IN
3 Department of Extension Education, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), IN
4 Department of Extension Education, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur (Rajasthan), IN

Abstract

The study was conducted in Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan as the district had highest area and production of rice crop as compared to other district of Sri Ganganagar region. Three Panchayat samities were selected from district having highest area under rice crop and demonstrations were conducted under MMA about improved package of practices of rice crop. The Department of Agriculture, Govt. of Rajasthan has conducted demonstration on improved package of practices of rice cultivation technology in these twelve villages under MMA scheme. All the respondents who had participated in demonstration on improved package of practices of rice cultivation technology were called as beneficiary. Equal numbers of non- beneficiary farmers, who did not participate in the demonstrations, fromeach selected villages were also selected to make the study comparable. In all 210 respondents were included for the study purpose out of which 50 per cent i.e. 105 were beneficiaries and remaining 105 non-beneficiaries were rice growers. Data were collected by personal interview method. Various statistical measures viz., chi- square test, 'z' test, 't' test and Spearman's rank correlation tests were used for analyzing the data. There was significant association between education, size of land holding, annual income, social participation and sources of information utilized with knowledge level of the farmers. The age, caste, family type and family size of rice growers were non-significantly associated with the knowledge level of the farmers.

Keywords

Knowledge, Association, Respondent, Beneficiary, Non-Beneficiary.

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Amit Kumar Keshri ¹, D. K. Bose ¹, E. P. K. Das ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication, Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), IN

Abstract

The present investigation was conducted in Bikaner district of Rajasthan. Block Bikaner was selected purposively due to its maximum and KCC scheme was prevelant therein. 10 villages were selected purposively from the selected block as KCC scheme was operating therein. 75 KCC holders and 75 KCC non-holders were selected on the basis of probability proporsinate procedure. Thus, total number of respondents were 150. Most of the KCC holders (38.67%) were under middle age group whereas 37.33 per cent KCC holders were under young age group. Most of the holders 58.67 per cent belonged to OBC caste. 45.33 per cent holders were educated from primary to middle school. Majority of KCC holder were big farmers. Annual income of 41.33 per cent KCC holders was 3-6 lakhs. There was highly significant between KCC holder and KCC Non-holders in context of their productivity of (moth, groundnut, cluster bean, wheat, mustard and gram).

Keywords

KCC, Comparison, Productivity, Important Crop.

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