A study on the extent of adoption of aquaculture technology as a means of rural youth livelihood in coastal Odisha

Abstract

The present study will be of great use to extension workers, planners, administrators and research workers, as it would throw some light on rural youth entrepreneurship qualities of pisciculture farmers. The objective of the study was to assess the extent of adoption of pisciculture technology as a means of rural youth livelihood in coastal Odisha. Both purposive and multistage random sampling methods were adopted for the selection of the district, grampanchayat, village and respondents. A total of 180 numbers of respondents were selected for the purpose of the investigation. Based on the descriptive statistics, most of the respondents had medium extent of adoption on pond requirement in pisciculture. The youth entrepreneurs in pisciculture had high extent of adoption on pre-stocking management, pond management and harvesting and post-harvesting management of the pisciculture. On the other hand, the study also revealed that education level, annual income, house type, pond size, extension contact, information source use, risk orientation, scientific orientation and innovation proneness were significantly and positively correlated with the adoption of various pisciculture technologies. It is therefore concluded that these aspects may be taken care of by the policy makers, scientist, extension agencies working in the area, so that the youth entrepreneurs in pisciculture will adopt recommended practices and harvest desirable quantity of fish not only to increase their standard of living but also make the area as well as the state self-sufficient in fish production, to fulfil at least internal requirements.