Farm- Level Study of Paddy Seed Production in Madurai District
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 4
Abstract
The most important strategy for increasing productivity in developing countries is through the delivery of quality seed. The average yield of paddy is high in regions where the seed replacement rate is high. There has been an increase in the seed replacement rate since 2005 in Tamil Nadu (Mohanty et al., 2017). The government is encouraging farmers to use newly developed varieties by providing subsidy. The aim of this paper is to study about the socioeconomic profile, current practices followed by the seed farmers like adoption to new varieties of seed and also analyse the production constraints faced by them. Purposive sampling method was adopted to collect primary data from 75 farmers through a well structured interview schedule. This study was conducted across 6 major seed producing blocks in Madurai. High profit and subsidies provided by the government were the major reasons for the adoption of paddy seed production while water availability, land availability were the major constraints faced by the farmers. KEYWORDS: Paddy,
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Almaas Amirudin, Uma K
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