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Awareness and perception of farmers about weather based agromet advisory services: Evidence from Vijayapura district of Karnataka, India

Author Affiliations

  • 1ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Ballari, Karnataka-583104, India

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 12, Issue (2), Pages 23-27, July,14 (2023)

Abstract

Present study evaluated the farmers awareness and perception about micro-level Agromet Advisory Services issued by AICRPAM of ICAR through its 25 cooperating centers located across the country. Micro-level advisory based on weather forecast is the innovative idea and studies on awareness and perception of these were unusual. Therefore, present study was carried out to examine the farmers awareness and perception towards agromet advisory service in AICRPAM Centre, Vijayapura. Two groups namely adopted and control farmers, involving forty farmers in each group was chosen through multi-stage random sampling technique. The descriptive statistics and tabular analysis was employed to arrive the results. The finding of the study shows that 50% AAS adopted farmers appraise the advisories as ‘very good’. However, Non-adopted farmers were fall off in awareness and adopting the service in counterpart with adopted farmers. The three-fourth of adopted farmers completely know about the weather advisories and weather advisories bulletin was the major source of communication for the advisories issued by the Centre. However, merely one-fourth of AAS farmers were willingness about pay based services at present due to their resource constraints.

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