The study conducted revealed that, the average land holding of small, medium and large farmers of Bijapur district was 3.36 acre, 7.88 acre and 14.76 acre, respectively and in case of Chitradurga district average land holding of small, medium and large farmers was 2.56 acre, 7.86 acre and 13.68 acre, respectively. With respect to soil type and extent, most of the small farmers (97.61%) possessed black soil, followed by large farmers (79.5%) and medium farmers (76.39%) in Bijapur district. With respect to soil type and extent in Chitradurga district, all most all farmers were having red soil. With respect to vegetation resource is considered in Bijapur district, small famers possessed higher number of fruit and forest trees per acre (0.80 and 2.66), where medium and large farmers had almost same number of fruit trees (0.25 and 0.22/ac), however, with respect to forest trees, large farmers had relatively more forest trees (1.42/ac) than medium farmers (0.97/ac) and the same was observed in Chitradurga district also. The livestock component is concerned, small farmers had higher number of livestock per acre (0.57) followed by medium (0.39) and large farmers (0.31). In case of Chitradurga district, small farmers had higher number of livestock (0.72/ac) followed by medium (0.20) and large farmers (0.15). The source of water for irrigation was open well as well as borewell in Bijapur district. While, in case of Chitradurga district, only borewell was the source of water for irrigation. The number of open wells and borewells in Bijapur district were found higher among large farmers i.e. 50 per cent of large farmers had open wells and 62.50 per cent had borewells, followed by medium farmers (58 % of wells and 38.50 % of borewell) and small farmers (33.33 % of wells and 8.33 % of borewell), whereas, the number of borewells in Chitradurga district was found higher among large farmers (91.67 %), followed by medium farmers (78%) and small farmers (8.33%).
The study was undertaken in Shivamogga and Uttara Kannada districts of Karnataka on 80 farmers during 2020-21 to assess the farmers’ knowledge about farm ponds as part of the Krishi Bhagya Yojane (KBY). The primary data on farmers’ knowledge about farm ponds under Krishi Bhagya Yojane was acquired by employing schedule developed for it. All the farmers had knowledge of KBY as a ‘scheme for storing runoff water’, ‘funded by Government of Karnataka’ and ‘Raitha Samparka Kendra as contact office’. Large majority the farmers (98.75%) had knowledge about ‘farm pond, polythene sheet, diesel engine and sprinkler set components’ and 86.25 per cent of farmers had knowledge about ‘polythene sheet to prevent percolation’. 97.50% of farmers had knowledge about ‘subsidy given for all the farmers’ and majority of farmers (87.50%) had knowledge about subsidy given for ‘dugout of farm pond. Knowledge was positively significant with education, economic motivation and area under commercial agriculture, extension contact, mass media exposure, cropping intensity and area under irrigation. 48.70 per cent of variation in knowledge was explained by all the independent variables selected for the study.
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