Technological adoption and constraint analysis of mushroom entrepreneurship in Karnataka

Shirur, Mahantesh; Shivalingegowda, N. S.; Chandregowda, M. J.; Rana, Rajesh K.

doi:10.5958/0976-4666.2016.00054.1

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“…Mushroom entrepreneurship being technologically intensive agribusiness, its success in a country like India is contingent upon the technological and institutional support available to it. (Shirur et. al., 2016).…”

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Adoption Level and Constraints Faced by Mushroom Cultivators in Uttarakhand

Kandpal¹

2022

irjee

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Mushroom demand has huge growth all over the World due to its nutritional and medicinal qualities. In order to identify the constraints in mushroom cultivation, a study was undertaken in Nainital District of Uttarakhand state. A total of 100 respondents from Nanital district of Uttarakhand were selected for the study. Data was collected through telephonic interview. Online Discussion was also organized on Goggle meet. To fi nd out the constraints faced by mushroom cultivators, Garrett’s ranking technique was used. Garrett’s Ranking Technique provides the constraints into numerical scores. The advantage of this technique is that the problems are arranged based on their harshness from the point of view of respondents. Data was collected through telephonic interview. The study reveals that majority of respondents were middle age group and educated up to medium level. All the respondents were using mobile phone and television for taking the information. Majority of respondents were using WhatsApp and You tube as social media. Majority of respondents (45%) were using fresh spawn and recommended seed rate (44%) and purchasing spawn from Govt Agency (64%). Majority of respondents had medium level of adoption rate in use of wheat straw (56%), Knowledge of Sanitation (67%). The results of constraints analysis revealed that problem of marketing was found as a signifi cant constraint (Score 59.02), followed by lack of transportation facilities (Score 58.88) for mushroom cultivation and lack of technical knowledge (Score 56.99). Therefore, training of farmers on the mushroom cultivation is needed. Financial support from banking institutions on the subsidized rate is also required to set up mushroom units

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Adoption Level and Constraints Faced by Mushroom Cultivators in Uttarakhand

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2022

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“…'distantly located markets', 'lack of government support', 'non availability of quality spawns' & 'risk involve due to perishable nature' were the major obstacles in this process. Shirur and Shivalingegowda [10], Singla and Rajni [11], Muyal and Sharma [12] and Kumari et al [13] also reported similar constraints. Sonam [14] revealed that a large percentage of respondents (98.33%) expressed mushroom growers faced lacks of proper marketing channel.…”

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Assessment of Constraints Faced by Rural Women of Assam in Adoption of Technology

Bora¹,

Deka²

2023

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The present study was conducted to explore the level of adoption of technology by rural women and constraints faced by them in technology adoption. Three vocational trainings namely ‘Food processing and preservation’, ‘Mushroom cultivation’ and ‘Vermicompost production’ were selected to study the constraints faced by the respondents in adopting the technologies learnt in the vocational trainings conducted by the Krishi Vigyan Kendras(KVKs). The study reveals that 69.33 per cent respondents belonged to medium socio economic category. Respondents of ‘Food processing and preservation’ training belonged to medium level of adoption, followed by low level (21.67%), whereas among the trainees of Mushroom production and Vermicompost production, highest percentage belonged to low level of adoption. Data on constraints faced by the respondents in adoption of technologies reveals that highest percentage of respondents faced medium level of constraints. ‘Lack of financial resource for starting a new venture’ was reported as a major constraint with mean score 1.33 by the rural women. Regarding the vocation specific constraints, ‘Raw materials not available round the year’ and ‘Do not have adequate knowledge about registration and licensing’, ‘Preservatives and packaging materials not easily available’ were some of the major constraints of food processing and preservation reported by the trainees. ‘Seasonal nature of income from mushroom production’ and ‘disease attack and insect infestation’, ‘Shelf life is very short’ were the constraints reported by the mushroom production trainee. ‘Not getting sufficient earthworm in local area’ and “Marketing is not smooth were the highly reported constraints of the participants of vermicompost production training.

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“…The concept of FPOs appears very appealing and attractive to ensure economic empowerment of small holder farmers through innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives. Entrepreneurial initiatives and farmers' innovations to fulfil this aim has been studied and documents by various authors (Shirur et al, 2016;Nain et al, 2018;Shirur et al, 2018;Nain et al, 2019;Shirur et al, 2019;Kobba et al, 2020;Nain et al, 2021). However, all the established FPOs are not in a position to operate efficiently and sustainably (Deka et al, 2020).…”

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Behavioural Determinants of Functionality of Farmer Producer Organisations in Punjab

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Tiwari

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Small and marginal farming communities of Indian agriculture account for more than 85%of the total farming households. They face the challenges of land fragmentation, high costof inputs and inability to market their produce efficiently. To tackle these challenges, policymakers came up with the model of farmers’ mutual cooperation through Farmer ProducerOrganisations (FPOs). This study conducted in Punjab analyses the behavioural factorsresponsible for functionality of FPOs. A random selection of 150 members from 5 functionaland 5 non-functional FPOs (i.e., 15 respondents from each selected FPO) was made andthe respondents were interviewed personally. The findings revealed that the members(including management) of the functional FPOs had higher risk bearing capacity, greatereconomic motivation and more innovativeness as compared to the respondents from non-functional FPOs. Similarly, respondents from functional FPOs were socially, economicallyand managerially more empowered than the non-functional FPOs. Business skills of themembers, including the managerial members, of functional FPOs were also better ascompared to those from the non-functional FPOs. Regression estimates revealed that thefunctionality, better academic qualification, bigger land holding and joint family systemwere responsible for the higher net annual income of the respondents.

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Technological adoption and constraint analysis of mushroom entrepreneurship in Karnataka

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Adoption Level and Constraints Faced by Mushroom Cultivators in Uttarakhand

Adoption Level and Constraints Faced by Mushroom Cultivators in Uttarakhand

Assessment of Constraints Faced by Rural Women of Assam in Adoption of Technology

Behavioural Determinants of Functionality of Farmer Producer Organisations in Punjab

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