Open AccessIssues, Challenges and Opportunities of Agriculture in West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh
Author(s) -
Abhishek Tiwari,
Sunil Kumar Singh,
Ajitabh Bora,
Baikuntha Jyoti Gogoi,
Sanjai K. Dwivedi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
indian journal of extension education
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.48165/ijee.2022.58125
Subject(s) - agriculture , geography , ranking (information retrieval) , outbreak , agricultural science , socioeconomics , agricultural economics , medicine , sociology , biology , computer science , economics , archaeology , virology , machine learning
A survey was made during ‘Kisan Jawan Vigyan Mela’ at Defence Research LaboratoryResearch and Development Centre (DRL R&D Centre), Salari, West Kameng district ofArunachal Pradesh with an aim of getting insight of issues, challenges and opportunitiesof agriculture sector. The relevant data was collected during Mela from 67 farmers of 11villages of the district using semi-structured interview (SSI) and a rank-based quotient (RBQ)was worked out to rank the farmers issues and challenges. Based on ranking of problemsby the group of farmers, outbreak of insect-pest and diseases, paucity of quality seedmaterial of field and vegetable crops and lack of technical knowhow were found to be themajor issues and challenges of the region. The problem solution trees for three of the majorproblems were constructed and the opportunities in hill farming were suggested to thefarmers as per the impact analysis and RBQ.