Level of agricultural modernization of tribal farmers

Abstract

Agricultural modernization is a psychological state of farmers mind. Agricultural modernization means from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture transformation process and means. To assess this situation, a study was conducted in Khedbrahma and Vijaynagar taluka of Sabarkantha district were selected purposively being tribal dominating area. Total 20 villages were randomly selected from 2 purposively selected talukas and 10 respondents were randomly selected from each village. Thus, total sample size was 200 farmers. And it is observed that 51.00 per cent of the respondents had medium level of agricultural modernization, followed by 29.00 per cent with low level. Remaining 20.00 per cent respondents had high level of agricultural modernization. And it is observed that six independent variables viz., education, annual income, economic motivation, risk orientation, scientific orientation and farmers’ attitude towards ITDP were found to be positively and significantly related with the agricultural modernization of the tribal farmers.