First-line agricultural extension system of ICAR: An analytical study on the attitude of beneficiaries of Rajasthan

Abstract

The Indian public agricultural extension system is one of the largest knowledge and information dissemination institutions in the world. The attitude of an individual has a significant and direct relationship with the behaviour towards the object. The present study has been conducted to study the attitude of the beneficiary farmer and farm women towards the agricultural extension system of ICAR. The research was conducted in all the ten agro-climatic zones of Rajasthan in total covering 300 beneficiaries’ farmers and farm women using random sampling techniques. Scale constructed by Pandey et al. (2020) was used for measuring the attitude of the beneficiary. Finding of the study denotes that 45.30 per cent of the farmers and half of the farm women had a favourable attitude towards the extension system of ICAR. More number of farmers (14.70%) had the most favourable attitude whereas only 2.7 per cent farm women fall in the category of most favourable attitude. Agro climatic zone wise, no significant difference was found in the attitude of the respondents towards the extension system of ICAR.