Vol. 11, Special Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
IM Tamboli, JM Deshmukh and BL Pisure

Abstract:
The present study was conducted mainly with the objective to study “Relationship of Personal Characteristics of Farmers with Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Practices by Farmers in Watershed Development Project Area” for the study Beed district was selected randomly. Multistage random sampling technique was used for selecting one watershed area, villages and respondents. The study was conducted at Bindusara watershed area in Beed district of Marathwada region (M.S.) randomly. From five selected villages, 20 farmers from each village were selected randomly to comprise a sample of 100 respondents for the study. It was noticed from study that majority of the respondents were adopted soil and water conservation practices like preparation of small ridges across the slope, graded bunds, tillage practices parallel to contour line on area having uneven slope, intercropping like Cotton + Green gram/Black gram/Soybean (1:1), Jowar + Pigeon pea (4:2), Soybean + Pigeon pea (4:2), Bajra + Pigeon pea (3:3), Rabi Jowar + Safflower (6:3),vegetative bunds of Subabhul, staggered contour trenches, ridges & furrows at distance of 50-60cm, farm pond, Jowar, Bajra, Green gram, Black gram, Soybean (After 4-6 lines) and farm pond. Independent variables namely farming experience, education, family type, family size, land holding, annual income, use of sources of information, social participation and extension contact were positive and highly significant relationship with the level of adoption of soil and water conservation practices. Independent variables education and social participation had exhibited highly significant, extension contact had significant, family type and use of sources of information had non-significant and farming experience, while family size, land holding, annual income had negatively significant relationship with adoption of soil and water conservation practices.