Relationship between psychological characteristics of beneficiary tribal farmers and their socio-techno-economic change

Abstract

The Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) has significantly improved the lives of tribal farmers by promoting socio-techno-economic transformations through efficient technology dissemination. Keeping in view, the present study entitled “relationship between psychological characteristics of beneficiary tribal farmers and their socio-techno-economic change” was carried out in middle Gujarat. The four tribal Districts Dahod, Panchmahals, Mahisagar and Chhotaudepur of middle Gujarat were selected purposively for present study. From each selected district two talukas were selected purposively. From each selected talukas, two villages were selected randomly. Thus, total sixteen villages were selected. Fifteen respondents from each village were selected. Thus, total 240 respondents were selected randomly from those four Districts. The results reveals that more than half (56.67%) of the respondents exhibited good to excellent cohesiveness, slightly more than half (52.50%) of the respondents had medium to high level of innovativeness, nearly three-fifth (58.75%) of the respondents had medium to high level of achievement motivation, majority (74.17%) of the respondents displayed medium to very high level of economic motivation, majority (60.41%) of the respondents exhibited medium to very high level of scientific orientation, slightly more than two-third (64.16%) of the respondents had medium to high level of risk orientation, slightly less than three-fifth (59.16%) of the respondents had favourable to strongly favourable attitude towards Agricultural Technology Management Agency. Among the selected psychological variables innovativeness, cohesiveness, achievement motivation, economic motivation, scientific orientation, risk orientation and attitude towards Agricultural Technology Management Agency had established positive and highly significant relationship with socio-techno-economic change.