Research Prioritization through Identification of Production Constraints in Agriculture

摘要

A study was conducted to determine the willingness of farmers to participate in the process of identification and prioritization of agricultural problems for research and extension intervention. The study concluded that the level of farmers' involvement in identification and prioritization of agricultural problems was low. Among all the highlighted problems, soil sodicity (21 farmers ranked it as 1) was the most important, followed by blue bulls attack (18 farmers ranked it as 1). The value based index (VBI) was highest for soil sodicity, followed by blue bulls attack, heat detection problem in buffaloes, motha infestation in rice, animal infertility, late adoption of technologies and Phalaris minor. The VBI was based on maximum number of responsesgiven by the farmers for respective problems and therefore needs urgent attention in respect of research and extension outreach. Thus, the issues should be given priority in research, development schemes and policy. Developmental policies should be implemented using bottom-up rather than the top-down approach so that farmers' opinion would be involved solving the problems well in time.Overall development of economy depends on the development of all the sectors. In agrarian economy, agriculture sector is called as backbone of economy. In general, the agriculture faces, number of constraints and if solutions are provided to these constraints/obstacles, this sector and overall economy develop faster. The economic development of region has relationship with different dimensions as productivity, production conditions, agrarian relations and agricultural change including infrastructure (Singh 1985 and Raza 1981). Among other factors, the good social network in village also plays an important role in development of agricultural society.A study was conducted in village Ismailpur in Dulhapur-Husainabad village panchayat of Gosaiganj block of Lucknow in 2009-10 to find the constraints in agricultural development. The village is situated at 26° 37.227'N Latitude and 81° 07.223'E Longitude, at an altitude of 103 m from mean sea level (MSL). The area receives annual rainfall of 1020 mm. The total area of the village is 154.75 ha with net cultivated area of 137.5 ha, fully irrigated through canal. The number of households in the village is233 with total population of 1017. Because of availability of canal irrigation, the major cropping pattern is Rice-Wheat-Mentha. Some farmers also grow vegetables due to availability of water and vicinity of markets. The average yield of rice, wheat andmentha was 43 qha1,32 qha4 and 801ha-1. The livestock population in the village included 200 buffaloes, 185 cattle and 40 goats.