CONNOTATION OF MANAGERIAL EFFICIENCY OF COCONUT PLANTATION GROWERS
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 13
Abstract
The study was conducted in Costal area of Saurashtra region of Gujarat state with ex-post facto research design. Three districts viz. Junagadh, Bhavnagar and Porbandar from the coastal area of Saurashtra region were selected. Five talukas were selected which had the highest coconut growing area from the districts randomly. From each selected taluka three villages were selected by purposively. Total number of 150 farmers, 10 farmers from each selected villages were selected by using purposive random sampling technique. To know the relationship of managerial efficiency of coconut plantation growers with their personal, socio-economical, psychological and extension-communicational characteristics. The finding revealed that the selected independent variables viz education, farm size, area under coconut, annual income, access to market facilities, innovativeness, risk orientation, perception, symbolic adoption, attitude toward coconut cultivation, information seeking behaviour and extension participation had significant relationship with managerial efficiency of coconut plantation growers. All the 16 independent variables together explained total variation in managerial efficiency to the extent of 69.90 per cent. The calculate ‘t’ value for partial regression co-efficient was positive and significant with age, educational status, area under coconut cultivation, annual income, access to market facilities and innovativeness, negative and significant with farm size, social participation, risk orientation and participation in training programme of coconut plantation growers.
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B. N. KALSARIYA
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