Psychological Attributes of Farmers Towards Farm Mechanization in Rice Shriwas Yogendra*, Awasthi H. K. Department of Agricultural Extension, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, C.G. *email: yogendrashrws@gmail.com
Online published on 2 January, 2017. Abstract Agricultural mechanization which entails the use of machines to perform several activitiesonthe farmin order to save time, money spent on hiring of labour and most importantly increases the level of production which will automatically lead to a simultaneous increase in the farmer's income. This study was carried out in Dhamtari, Mahasamund, Janjgir-Champa, Raigarh and Raipur; five selected districts of Chhattisgarh plains because these districts have highest farm machineries. The study aimed to observe the socio-psychological attributes ofthe farmers in adoption of farm machineries in rice crop. The information was obtained with help of interview schedule by personal interview. Collected data were analyzed by using suitable statistical tools. Cosmopoliteness, Risk bearing ability, scientific orientation and Economic motivation of the respondents were considered as sociopsychological attributes. The findings of this study revealed that incase of cosmopoliteness of the respondents (49.66%) had low cosmopoliteness, incase of risk bearing capacity majority of the respondents (64.00%) hadmedium level of risk bearing capacity regarding farm machineries, with regards to scientific orientation towards farm machineries the majority (60.66%) of the respondents had medium level of scientific orientation and with respect to economic motivation towards farm mechanization (63.33%) of the respondents had medium level of economic motivation regarding farm machineries. Top Keywords Socio-psychological attributes, risk bearing ability, scientific orientation, economic motivation, rice. Top |