Assessing the Attitude of Farmers towards Improved Fodder Production Technologies in Jhansi District of Bundelkhand Region
Pragya Singh
Department of Agricultural Extension, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi-284128 (Uttar Pradesh), India.
Arjun Prasad Verma *
Department of Agricultural Extension, BUAT, Banda-210001 (Uttar Pradesh), India.
Gaurendra Gupta
Social Science Division, ICAR-IGFRI, Jhansi-284003 (Uttar Pradesh), India.
Khem Chand
ICAR-NIAP, New Delhi-110012, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The present study was carried out in 2020 with the aim of assessing farmer's attitude towards improved fodder production technology in Jhansi district of Bundelkhand region. An ex post Facto research design was used in the present study. Three villages from Babina block were selected purposively for investigation of farmer’s attitude towards various fodder based technological intervention. From each village, 20 farmers were purposively selected. Thus, a total of 60 farmers were selected for the present study. The results revealed that majority of the respondents belonged in middle age category (58.33%), more than one third had middle class education (36.67%), medium family size (53.34%), semi-medium land holding (41.67%), percentage of the respondents involved in dairy+crop farming (100%), medium herd size (53.33%), medium experience in dairy farming (51.67%) and medium annual income i.e. Rupees 155000 to 350000 (53.34%). The results revealed that majority of the participants who had high, moderate and low attitude towards improved fodder production technologies were 16.67, 23.33 and 15.00% respectively. It was concluded that, there was an inclination of positive response and concern for improved fodder technologies among respondents and vast majority of the respondents (85.00 %) had a moderately to highly favorable attitude.
Keywords: Attitude, Bundelkhand region, fodder crops, IFPT, Jhansi