Paddy cum Fish Farming: A Case Study in Assam

Pegu, Rajeswar; Singh, Y. J.; Pal, Prasenjit; Upadhyay, A.D.; Sarkar, Atanu; Khuman, O.N.; Bharati, Huirem

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2019.804.041

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“…All these reasons contributed for most of the IFS farmers falling in medium and high categories of economic motivation. The similar finding was also confirmed by Mangala [20], Kapil [21] and Pegu et al [16].…”

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confidence: 87%

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Socio-economic and Psychological Profile of Farmers Practicing Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) in Andhra Pradesh

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Praveena

Lakshmi

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Agriculture is always been considered as the backbone of our country. In India, 70 per cent of the rural population is engaged in agriculture and 80 per cent of the population lives directly or indirectly on agriculture. There are 115 million operational holdings in the country and about 80 per cent are marginal and small farmers [1]. Indian agriculture has been taken the responsibility of providing food and employment to its millions of people. The present study described the socio-economic and psychological profile of Integrated Farming System practicing farmers in Chittoor from Rayalaseema region, East Godavari from North East Coastal region and Srikakulam from North Coastal region. The sample constituted to a total of 189 farmers. The farmers practicing Integrated Farming System were middle aged (52.38%), completed graduation (26.98%), were small land holders (43.39%) with high experience in IFS (55.56%), had nuclear family (88.89%) and with fair cropping pattern (69.31%). The major occupation of the IFS farmers was cultivation (51.85%) with medium family size (67.72%), annual income (49.21%), extension contact (43.39%), mass media exposure (43.92%), economic motivation (54.50%), decision making ability (46.03%), risk preference (53.44%), enterprise combination (100.00%) and members of at least one organization (65.08%).

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confidence: 87%

“…This might the probable reason for most of the IFS farmers having medium level of income. These findings were supported with Jagwinder [15] and Pegu et al [16].…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 86%