Extent of farmer participation in the farmer FIRST programme in Haryana, India

Abstract

Farmer participation is critical to successful implementation of rural agricultural development programmes. This paper reports the results of a study in the farmer FIRST project in Haryana, in which, farmer participation was measured, and it was linked to various personal variable characteristics of the participants. Study was conducted in the Haryana state, in two Districts Hisar and Karnal selected purposely. From Hisar, Gurana was taken as adopted village and Datta as non-adopted village whereas from Karnal, Garhi Gujran was taken as adopted and Samora as a non-adopted village. Total 240 respondents were selected viz., 120 from each district, 60 farmers from each adopted villages and non-adopted villages were interviewed for the present study. The results showed that people’s participation was found maximum in resource analysis and planning stage followed by other stages of the programme. it was found significant and positively correlated with a value of 0.208. Further, it was found that education socio-economic status (SES), extension contact, economic motivation and farming system had a positive and significant correlation with the participation.