Vol. 5 (4) : July-August 2014 issue
Green Farming Vol. 5 (4) : 712-715 ; July-August, 2014
Farmers’ accessibility for various services towards private and public extension services
JASVINDER KAURa1*, JOGINDER S. MALIKa2, P.S. SHEHRAWATa3, SUSHILA DAHIYAb4 and QUADRI JAVEED AHMED PEERc5
aDept. of Ext. Education, Deptt of Sociology, C.C.S. Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar - 125 004 (Haryana)
bFaculty of Agriculture, Spore - 180 009 (Jammu & Kashmir)
Designation : 1,5Ph.D. Scholar *(jasvinder.sidhu2012@gmail.com), 2Joint Director Extension , 3Prof. & Head , 4Associate Professor
Subject : Agriculture Extension Education
Paper No. : P-1739
Total Pages : 4
Received : 27 March 2014
Revised accepted : 23 July 2014
First Page
Citation :
JASVINDER KAUR, JOGINDER S. MALIK, P.S. SHEHRAWAT, SUSHILA DAHIYA and QUADRI JAVEED AHMED PEER. 2014. Farmers’ accessibility for various services towards private and public extension services. Green Farming Vol. 5 (4) : 712-715 ; July-August, 2014
ABSTRACT
The main purpose of this study was investigation of accessibility of different services provided by private and public extension agencies to the farmers for agricultural practices In recent years, the need for involving private sector in sharing, augmenting and supplementing public sector extension efforts is being increasingly recognized in India. As farmers need very timely and quality services to compete at global level so both the agencies (private and public) did their best to benefit the farmers. In the view of this the present study was undertaken to find out the farmers' accessibility towards public and private extension services during 2012 in Ambala, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Hisar and Fatehabad districts of Haryana state. From each district two blocks were selected randomly and from each block two villages were selected. A manageable size of 10 farmers was selected from each village thus making total sample size of 200 farmers. Here, the results showed that for services like input supply (HYV, seedling of plantation crops, fertilizers, insecticides etc.) and infrastructure facilities (packing and processing, store house facilities, cold storage) farmers found private extension more accessible than public extension. As far as consultancy & diagnosis services concerned both the agencies were almost equally accessible. While in case of information on incentives, credit, sources & formalities, prices of different markets public extension was more accessible than the other. Similar results were in case of some technical services like soil health, forecast pest & disease problems, soil and water testing services that farmers found public extension more accessible as compared to private extension.
Key words :
Accessibility, Consultancy & diagnosis, Information, Infrastructure, Input supply, Private extension, Public extension, Technical services .