IMPACT OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF BENEFICIARIES AND NON-BENEFICIARIES OF FLD PROGRAMME ON THEIR SCIENTIFIC TEMPERAMENT

P. KUMAR¹, G. BIHARE², P. MARATHA³*, G. UIKEY⁴, A. WANKHEDE^5
1Department of Agriculture Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Indore, 452001, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, India
²Department of Agriculture Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Indore, 452001, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, India
³Department of Agriculture Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Indore, 452001, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, India
⁴Department of Agriculture Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Indore, 452001, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, India
⁵Department of Agriculture Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Indore, 452001, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, India
* Corresponding Author : prashantmaratha@gmail.com

Received : 17-02-2020     Accepted : 17-03-2020     Published : 15-03-2020
Volume : 12     Issue : 5       Pages : 9601 - 9603
Int J Agr Sci 12.5 (2020):9601-9603

Keywords : Energy and nutrition, Socio-economic Profile, FLD
Academic Editor : Dr H. V. Pandya, Kannan C. S. Warrier
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to College of Agriculture, Indore, 452001, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

The study was conducted at Sawer blocks of Indore district, Madhya Pradesh. where FLDs were conducted by IARI Regional station on Wheat, Indore M.P. during 2015-16 and 2016-17,60 wheat growers were benefited by this programme. All the beneficiary farmers, and same number of non-beneficiary farmers, were selected randomly from same villages of Indore district. Thus, 120 respondents were selected to constitute the sample of the study. For the study purpose 11 independent variables namely age, education, age, education, annual income, marketing behavior, farm power, land holding, farm mechanization, attitude, economic motivation, knowledge and mass media exposure were selected for analyzing their relationship with the response variable i.e., scientific temperament. The study revealed that majority of the respondents 50% belonged to middle age group, middle school education, medium size of land holding, one bullock pair, medium level of farm mechanization, Rs. 60,001 to 1,00,000/- annual income, medium & high marketing behaviour, high level of economic motivation, medium level attitude, high level of knowledge and medium level of mass media exposure.

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