Adoption of Indigenous Paddy Cultivation Practices among Tribal Farm Women ofWest Garo Hills District of Meghalaya

摘要

The study was conducted in West Garo Hills District of Meghalaya and with the objective to determine the extent of adoption of indigenous paddy cultivation practices by the tribal farm women. Proportionate random sampling was used in selection of 120respondents in the selected blocks. Indigenous practices having rationality for adoption of paddy cultivation practices were collected and the data is analyzed with percentage analysis. The findings on the socio-economic profile showed that majority of the respondents were old aged and illiterates, practiced farming as their occupation, had low level of annual income and social participation, had medium level of farming experience, extension agency contact, mass media exposure, livestock possession, cosmopoliteness, innovativeness and risk orientation and belonged to high level of fatalism. The findings on adoption revealed that majority of the respondents had adopted soil water conservation practice followed by irrigation, weed control management, nursery management, pest management and main field preparation.