Estimating Profile of the Beneficiaries Under National Horticulture Mission Adsul G.B.*, Kadam R.P.** Department of Extension Education, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agriculture University, Parbhani, M.S. *email: adsulganesh64@gmail.com
** rpk.mkv@gmail.com
Online published on 2 January, 2017. Abstract The present study was conducted purposively in Jalna and Nanded district of the Marathwada region of Maharashtra state during the year 2015–2016. From this two district six tahsils were selected purposively. With irrespective of villages list of beneficiaries of NHM scheme was collected from SAO office, department of agriculture of Jalna and Nanded district. From these NHM beneficiaries list of 240 NHM beneficiaries was selected randomly from selected six talukas of Jalna and Nanded districts. For measuring socio-economic impact of NHM on its beneficiaries scale developed and used for assessment of socio-economic impact of NHM. It was found that, majority (71.25%) of the NHM beneficiaries were middle aged, 30.00 per cent educated up to primary school level, more than half (53.34%) of them having medium family size and 45.83 per cent of them having small land holding. It was observed that, majority (88.75%) of them having medium area under horticulture crop, 37.09 per cent of them having tube well as source of irrigation, majority (76.25%) of them having farming + business occupation, majority (80.83%) of them having medium annual income, more than half (53.33%) of themhaving medium social participation, 65.83 per cent of them having medium source of information, 69.58 per cent of them having medium level of extension contact, 61.66 per cent of them having medium attitude and 70.41 per cent of them having medium level of economic motivation. Top Keywords Profile, beneficiaries, National Horticulture Mission. Top |