A scale was developed to measure the "attitude of farmers towards Crop Insurance Scheme". Based on the review of literature and discussion with the expert's, 48 statements were enlisted. The Likert's summated rating scale was followed in the construction of scale. The list of 48 statements were sent to a panel of 250 experts with the request, to critically evaluate each statement for its relevancy to measure the attitude of farmers towards Crop Insurance Scheme. Out of 250 experts selected for the scale construction, 74 experts responded in time and at the earliest. Based on their judgment an aggregate of 30 statements was selected by finding the Relevancy Weightage (RW). Accordingly, statements having relevancy percentage >75, relevancy weightage >0.75 and mean relevancy score >3.00 were considered for the item analysis. In item analysis, the selected 30 statements were administered on 40 farmers in the non-sample area. Finally, a total of 24 statements were selected for the study, based on the ‘t’ values (> 1.75) resulted from the item analysis and were included in the final scale. The ‘r’ value of the scale was found to be 0.81, which was significant at one per cent level indicating the high reliability. Hence, the scale developed was found to reliable and valid. Thus, the instrument developed to measure the attitude of farmers towards Crop Insurance Scheme is useful in the similar studies.
Universally agriculture is perceived to be synonymous with risk and uncertainty. Agricultural insurance is one of the risk management strategies to overcome risk to the greater extent. It helps in stabilization of farm production and income of the farming community. Crop insurance will not only helps the farmers to withstand the shock from uncertain situations but also acts as incentive to use the resources efficiently and achieve higher level of productivity. The study was conducted in Karnataka State during the year 2017-18 by using the "Ex-post- facto” research design. Belgavi, Dharwad, Haveri and Vijayapura districts were selected purposively based on more number of insured farmers. Further, two taluks from each district and from each taluk three villages (i.e. total 24 villages) were selected randomly. The sample size for the study was 240. The findings of the study revealed that fifty-one per cent (51.67%) of the insured farmers had low level of satisfaction with respect to crop insurance schemes followed by medium (32.92%) and high (15.41%). The variables such as education, land holding, annual income, extension contact and mass media exposure exhibited positive significant relationship at five per cent level of probability with the satisfaction level of insured farmers. The coefficient of determination (R2) was 0.450 which indicated that 45.00 per cent of the variation in satisfaction level of insured farmers was together explained by all the independent variables. In the present study farmers satisfaction was found to be low. Thus, concerned officers should conduct awareness programmes, inform the farmers on or before conducting the Crop Cutting Experiment, make the loss assessment procedure flexible and hassle free and disperse the claim before starting of the next season.
SUMMARY :Storage is an important post-harvest function which involves holding and preserving of agricultural commodities from the time they are produced until they are needed for consumption. Farmers store different quantity of food grains for different durations and in this storage period they face many problems due to various factors. An attempt has been made to document various problems faced by farmers during storage of food grains and their suggestions for better storage of food grains. The study was conducted in Dharwad taluk of Dharwad district of Karnataka state. The study revealed that most of the farmers store all the food grains like jowar, paddy, wheat etc., in the range of 1-10 quintals. About 50 per cent (47.5%) of respondents felt that lack of proper storage space is major problem faced by farmers. Arrangements for the training on improved methods of food grain storage (30.00%) and disseminating information on insecticides and fumigants (22.55) were the suggestions given by the respondents.How to cite this article : Nagesh, Halakatti, S.V. and Hanchinal, S.N. (2014). Constraints faced by farmers during storage of food grains. Agric. Update, 9(3): 274-278.
The study was an "expost-facto" research carried out in Belagavi and Haveri districts of Karnataka State during the year 2017-18. Three taluks were selected in each district based on the highest area. The total sample size was 150. The results revealed that cent per cent of farmers have correct knowledge about summer ploughing. Most (92.66 %) of the farmers were having high knowledge on regular destruction of damaged plants and 80.00 per cent of farmers have knowledge on spraying of NSKE. Almost all (98.66 %) the farmers having knowledge about using chemical for control of diamond black moth. The overall knowledge of farmers about IPM practices in cabbage showed that 51.33 per cent of the respondents belonged to medium level of knowledge about IPM practices in cabbage followed by low (28.66 %) and high (20.00%). The probable reasons might be that less education level, lack of training, non-utilization of mass media and less extension contact. So there is a great scope to design more number of skill trainings, demonstration and exposure visits by the development departments.
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