Open AccessAttitude of Farmers towards Groundnut Cultivation in Bikaner District of Rajasthan
Author(s) -
Amit Kumar,
L. S. Bareth,
Ramdhan Ghaswa,
Jyoti Yadav
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
indian journal of extension education
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.48165/ijee.2022.58144
Subject(s) - productivity , beneficiary , agricultural science , palm oil , toxicology , non invasive ventilation , geography , agronomy , forensic science , business , biology , economics , macroeconomics , finance , archaeology
The National Mission on Oilseed and Oil Palm (NMOOP) in India aims to increase oilseed and oil palm production and productivity by converting fallow lands to oilseed cropsand diversifying regions away from low-yielding cereals. It plans to improve vegetable oilavailability and reduce edible oil imports by increasing oilseed production and productivityfrom 29.79 million tons and 1122 kg/ha in the 12th plan period to 36.10 million tons and1290 kg/ha by the end of 2019-20. The study, aimed to explore respondents’ opinionstowards groundnut cultivation was conducted on 80 beneficiary farmers of NMOOP and80 non-beneficiaries. Groundnut growers, accounting for 11.24 percent, had a less favorableattitude toward groundnut cultivation whereas, 69.38 per cent of respondents fell into themoderately favorable category. It was noted that the both category of respondents hadfavorable attitude towards the interventions of groundnut cultivation.