Relationship between socio economic improvement of beneficiary farmers and their selected personal characteristics

Abstract

The Village Adoption Programme is an important government initiative to provide various benefits and support to farmers in rural areas. Under the Village Adoption Programme, a range of practices, interventions, techniques and methods have been transferred to the farmers. These transferred practices and interventions are collectively referred to as transferred technologies. The present investigation was carried out in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan State with an objective to ascertain the relationship between socio-economic improvement of beneficiary farmers and their selected personal characteristics. The ex-post-facto research design was used for the study. 90 beneficiary farmers from adopted villages (30 from each village) were selected randomly for the study purpose. To know the personal characteristics of farmers, an interview schedule was constructed. The results showed that annual income, occupation, education level, land holding, extension contact, extension participation, source of information, mass media utilization, training acquired and scientific orientation found highly significant at 1 per cent level of significance and risk orientation found significant at 5 per cent level of significance with socio economic improvement. Age, farming experience, family type and type of house found non-significant with socio economic improvement.