Development of Scale to Measure Livelihood Security of Farmers Practicing Different Farming Systems in Southern Karnataka

Shwetha, N.V.; Shivalingaiah, Y. N.

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2019.811.064

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“…Through the project ample of opportunities were given to the respondents to undergo training on different aspects of IFS. The results of the present study are in linewith the findings of Sujay Kumar (2012), Mamathalakshmi [5] Shwetha [7] and Venkatareddy [8].…”

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confidence: 92%

“…The possible reason is majority of the respondents belongs to marginal category of land holding due to fragmentation of land beceause of predominance of nuclear families. The above mentioned findings are in consonance with the finding of Mamathalakshmi [5], Harshitha [6] and Shwetha & Shivalingiah [7].…”

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confidence: 90%

“…The above trend is noticed since all the respondents received inputs like improved seeds, planting material poultry birds and one of the livestock components like cow/ sheeps/ piglets based on their needs through project and got optimum production, productivity and net income". [11] The study results were supported by the findings of Mamathalakshmi [5], Harshitha et al [6] and Shwetha & Shivalingiah [7].…”

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confidence: 78%

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Development of Scheduled Caste Farmers through Integrated Farming System in Bangalore Rural District, India

Madhuprasad,

Ravindra,

Harshitha, D.

2024

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The study was conducted in Bengaluru Rural district of Karnataka State, a total sample of 275 respondents was selected for the study and the data was collected by using pretested structured interview schedule and analyzed using appropriate statistical tools. It was observed that, the livelihood security of the respondents under ‘highly satisfied’ category was improved from 23.64 per cent from the bench mark data to 38.18 per cent. In ‘less satisfied’ category it was decreased to 32.73 per cent from 41.82 per cent after implementation of the project. Out of seven dimensions of livelihood security, maximum increase was noticed in employment security (69.84%) followed by ecological security (60.96%), living amenities (52.39%), economic efficiency (51.76 %), coping strategies against stress (45.35%), assets (37.13 %) and social equitability (28.03%) and overall livelihood security increased by 48.17 per cent after implementation of the project. The personal, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of the beneficiaries; land holding, cropping pattern, livestock possession, innovativeness, mass media exposure, management orientation, level of aspiration, training undergone, participation in development programme, access to extension personnel and access to resources exhibited positive and significant relationship with livelihood security.The R2 value of 0.324 indicated that all 18 variables had contributed to the tune of 32.40 per cent of variation in Livelihood Security of respondents. Hence, the concerned development departments should promote and strengthen the IFS activities to enhance the livelihood security of resource poor framers. The positive and significantly related characteristics needs to be considered while selecting the farmers for IFS programs to enhance their livelihood security.

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confidence: 78%

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Development of Scheduled Caste Farmers through Integrated Farming System in Bangalore Rural District, India

Madhuprasad,

Ravindra,

Harshitha, D.

2024

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“…Further, due to increased income farmers purchased own vehicles, vehicles for transportation of produce, farm machineries which are required for carrying out the farm activities. The results are in conformity with findings of Shwetha (2019) [8] .…”

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Bangalore sewage treated water: Enhanced the livelihood security of Kolar district farmers

Shivalinagaiah,

Raghuprasad

et al. 2024

Int. J. Agric. Extension Social Dev.

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Kolar district of Karnataka is identified as an eternally drought prone area with no perennial rivers, faces severe water quantity and quality issues over the years. Government of Karnataka had taken an initiative to implement Koramangala-Challagatta Valley project for better utilization of treated water to fill the tanks in the district to improve the groundwater. The present study was purposively carried out in Kolar district of Karnataka State. Kolar and Srinivaspura taluks were purposively selected for the study as the number of tanks filled were more in these two taluks. The primary data were collected from 180 farm households, consisting of 90 farm households in Kolar taluk and 90 from Srinivaspura taluk. From each taluk 30 big, 30 small and 30 marginal farmers were categorised based on land holding and selected. The data were collected from the respondents through personal interview method using pre-tested and well-structured schedule during March 2022. The villages were selected randomly based on the area in which tanks were filled under the project in the district. It was evident from the study that majority of the farmers secured better livelihood in the K.C. Valley project area after the implementation of the project.

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“…Because of the intervention of diversified cropping pattern and livestock component in the farming activity, the income of the farmers was increased and in turn it might have contributed to enhancement in the satisfaction level of the farmers. The findings seek support from the studies of Sujay Kumar (2018) [3] and Shwetha & Shivalingiah (2019) [5] . The results depicted in [4] , Harshitha et al, (2018) [2] and Venkatareddy (2021) [7] .…”

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Impact of integrated farming system on development of scheduled caste farmers in Tumakuru district of Southern Karnataka

Madhuprasad,

Ravindra,

2024

Int. J. Agric. Extension Social Dev.

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The study was conducted in purposively selected Tumakuru district, a total sample of 240 respondents were purposively selected for the study. Data was collected by using pretested structured interview schedule and analysed by using appropriate statistical tools. The results revealed that majority of the respondents found to have marginal land holding and belonged to low level of education, cropping pattern, cosmopoliteness, innovativeness, mass media exposure, extension participation and level of aspiration followed by medium category of training undergone and willingness in agriculture and high level of livestock possession, social participation and risk orientation. It was observed that, the livelihood security of respondents in 'highly satisfied category' increased to 40.42 percent from 27.08 percent, out of seven dimensions maximum increase was noticed in employment security (60.15%) followed by ecological security (47.80%), living amenities (45.73%), assets (40.81%),economic efficiency (34.51%), coping strategies against stress (32.53%) and social equitability (28.80%) and overall livelihood security increased by 42.15 percent after implementation of project. Further, livestock and crop component generated 583.64 mandays of employment per annum and Rs. 1,30,553.50 net income to beneficiary farmers. The average gross income of Rs. 1,91,745.50 from both crop and livestock enterprises of IFS against Rs. 6,513.00 before implementation of the project. As such, for every one rupee investment under IFS they are getting Rs. 3.13 rupee income. The characteristics such as land holding, cropping pattern, livestock possession, cosmopoliteness, innovativeness, mass media exposure, extension participation, level of aspiration, training undergone and willingness in agriculture had positive and significant relationship with livelihood security. The R 2 value indicated that, all the 13 independent variables had contributed to the tune of 63.40 percent of variation in livelihood security. Hence, the positive and significantly related characteristics need to be considered while selecting the farmers for the extension educational programmes to enhance their livelihood security by the concerned development departments.

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Development of Scale to Measure Livelihood Security of Farmers Practicing Different Farming Systems in Southern Karnataka

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Development of Scheduled Caste Farmers through Integrated Farming System in Bangalore Rural District, India

Development of Scheduled Caste Farmers through Integrated Farming System in Bangalore Rural District, India

Bangalore sewage treated water: Enhanced the livelihood security of Kolar district farmers

Impact of integrated farming system on development of scheduled caste farmers in Tumakuru district of Southern Karnataka

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