AN APPRAISAL OF AGRICULTURE FARMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, UTTAR PRADESH
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 59
Abstract
Uttar Pradesh is the most populous and one of the main food grains producing state of the country. The Department of Agriculture, U.P. is responsible for transfer of improved agriculture technologies to the farmers and also assist them in timely availability of agricultural inputs like seeds, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, fungicides etc. with a view to demonstrating the technical feasibility, economic viability and social acceptability of location. Specific agro techniques to the farmers, it has established 177 agricultural farms popularly known as seed multiplication farms in different agro climatic regions of the state. A three stage stratified random sampling techniques has been used to select the division, district and govt. agricultural farms. 15 Govt. Agricultural farms were selected and categorized as general, usar, pathari and problematic. The selected 15 Govt. Agricultural farms fall under different categories by viz. general (7), usar(3), pathari(3) and problematic (2). The main crops like wheat, paddy, mustard/toriya and gram/pea were grown on the general farms. In this categories, wheat accounted the highest percentage being 33.17 to the total cropped area followed by paddy 21.53 percent, mustard/toriya 8.74 percent and gram/pea 3.62 percent. The cropping intensity on general farm, it varied from 166.74 to 219.44 percent with an average of 200.48 percent. On usar farms, it varied from 153.21 to 200.00 percent with an average of 182.06 percent. On pathari farms, it varied farm 100 to 198.13 percent with an average of 142.84 percent. On problematic farms, it varied from 175.58 to 198.39 percent with an average of 187.19 percent. The main constraints to low productivity on these farms were fertilizer management, less knowledge of plant protection and herbicides, late sowing of crops and late irrigation respectively. The excess of chanas and labour, poor labour efficiency and availability of labour respectively were the economic problem of the sample farm. Unavailability of imprest money, excess of inspection officer, wild animals, local pressure of leaders and untimely inspection respectively were the administrative and other problem of these farms.
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MONI SINGH
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