Vol. 11, Special Issue 1 (2022)

Author(s):
PS Kulkarni, UD Jagdale, VJ Tarde, MV Ajotikar and GP Chavan

Abstract:
The present study was conducted in two tehsils of Sangli district of Maharashtra state. Data were collected by personally interviewing 120 beneficiary farmers. It was found that, majority (69.16 per cent) of the beneficiary farmers belonged to middle age, educated up to graduation and above level (35.00 per cent) having medium farming experience (64.17 per cent), medium knowledge (63.34 per cent), medium social participation (69.17 per cent), medium sources of information (59.16), small land holding (40.83 per cent), medium annual income (79.16 per cent). It is observed that, independent variables like education, social participation and sources of information had positive and significant relationship with attitude of beneficiary farmers towards Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana. Also farming experience, knowledge, land holding, annual income, irrigation status and risk orientation had positive and highly significant relationship with attitude of beneficiary farmers towards Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana.