Profile of Cluster Frontline Demonstration Beneficiaries in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh State

Sanjana Shrivastava, Seema Naberia and S. R. K. Singh

Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, 2022, vol. 40, issue 11, 5

Abstract: Cluster Frontline Demonstration (CFLD) is a unique approach by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research on Oilseed crops to provide a direct interface between scientists and farmers where farmers are guided by the KVK scientists during demonstrations in implementation of improved technologies like seed treatment, IPM, INM, land preparation and so on, Demonstrated fields are regularly monitored by the scientists. The present study was carried out to know the profile of CFLD beneficiaries in selected districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh over a complete sample of 346 beneficiaries. The results revealed that majority of the CFLD beneficiaries were in middle age (61.57%), belongs to male category (86.13), educated up to middle school (26.98), had large family size (40.17%), medium social participation (50.00%), medium material possession (61.27%), medium annual income (67.92%), large size of land holding (46.54%), had more than 0.4 ha land under oilseed crop (48.26%) with good cropping pattern (44.52%), had medium level extension participation (74.27%), medium information seeking behaviour(64.16%), medium mass media exposure (84.11%), medium scientific orientation (53.18%), medium innovativeness (58.96%), medium risk preference (55.20%), medium knowledge about oilseeds (63.53%), had fair management efficiency (62.13%), attended more than one training programme (63.01%) under cluster frontline demonstration.

Keywords: Research; and; Development/Tech; Change/Emerging; Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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