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Attitude of Farmers towards Kisan Mandals and Kisan Seva Kendra

Ramakant Sharma, S.K. Sharma and A.K. Sharma

Abstract

This new system of Kisan Mandals and Kisan Seva Kendra has visualized having favorable attitude of farmers towards it. So an effort to measure attitude of farmers towards this new system of Kisan Mandals and Kisan Seva Kendra was studied in this investigation along with the association between selected independent variables and attitude factor. The study was conducted in Jaipur district of Rajasthan. A sample of 90 mandal farmers was selected by random sampling method. The results indicated that more than half of the respondent’s i.e.60.00 percent had favorable and 26.66 percent farmers had most favorable attitude towards Kisan Mandals and Kisan Seva Kendra. Remaining 13.33 percent respondents had unfavorable attitude towards Kisan Mandals and Kisan Seva Kendra. It shows that farmers in general were happy with the working of Kisan Mandals and Kisan Seva Kendras. There appears to be a positive contribution of extension personnel in motivating the farmers to take benefit of the programmes. The third position was ranked to ‘information provided under Kisan Mandal meetings is beneficial for the farmers’. It was also observed that attitude of the farmers towards Kisan Mandals and Kisan Seva Kendras were positively and significantly associated with knowledge, participation in extension activities, social participation, level of education, size of land holding and social-economic status

Keyword: Kisan Mandal; Kisan Seva

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