A Measurement Tool for Impact Assessment of Group Farming on its Members

Abstract

Group farming is a collective approach wherein farmers pool their land, labour, capital and share costs and profi ts. It helps to improve farmers’ access to markets and credit, by improving their knowledge, economies of scale, and bargaining power. It is important to study the impact of group farming towards economic, social, participatory, market linkage and technological point of view as it is one of the strong interpreters to boost productivity of smallholder agriculture. The summated rating method proposed by Likart (1932) was used to develop the scale to quantify the impact of group farming. Initially 72 statements were selected relating to review of literature and 31 being fi nalized for the fi nal construction of the scale. The precision and consistency of the data were determined by calculating the reliability and validity of the scale. This scale will help the policy makers, academicians and researchers interested in studying the impact of group farming on its participants.