Correlational analysis of profile of beneficiary farmers and impact of Jalyukt Shivar campaign

Abstract

Jalyukt Shivar Campaign was launched in Maharashtra in December, 2014 to make Maharashtra a drought free state. The main objectives of the programme were harvesting maximum rainwater in the surroundings of villages, increasing level of groundwater, increasing area under irrigation, creating decentralized water bodies. The present study was conducted to measure strength of the association between the profile of beneficiary farmers and impact of Jalyukt Shivar Campaign. An Ex-post-facto research design was used for the investigation. A sample of 320 beneficiary farmers was selected by covering 40 villages of two districts namely; Nagpur and Yavatmal from Nagpur and Amravati division of Maharashtra state, respectively. The results of correlation revealed that, the characteristics of the respondents namely education, annual income, land holding, source of irrigation, type of soil, extension participation, source of information, innovativeness, cosmopoliteness, risk preference, economic motivation and attitude of the respondents had positive and significant relationship with impact of Jalyukt Shivar Campaign at 0.01 level of probability. Whereas, family size, occupation, farming experience and social participation were found positively and significantly related with impact of Jalyukt Shivar Campaign at 0.05 level of probability. The age of the respondents had non-significant relationship with impact of Jalyukt Shivar Campaign. The study focused the existing relationship between the profile of beneficiary farmers and impact of Jalyukt Shivar Campaign.