The research study, titled 'effect of National Horticulture Mission on socio-economic condition of beneficiaries in Davanagere district of Karnataka,' was carried out in all six blocks of Karnataka's Davanagere district, namely Channagiri, Honnali, Harihar, Jagalur, Harapanahalli, and Davanagere. In each taluk, four villages with the highest number of NHM beneficiaries were chosen for the study. Six beneficiaries were chosen at random from each of the 24 villages, based on the criteria that the farmers who were beneficiaries under the NHM programme from 2008-09 to 2013-14 met. As a result, the study's overall sample size was 144 people. The information was gathered from the respondents in the sample using a pre-tested interview schedule. Statistical tests such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and chi-square were used to analyse the data. The study used an ex-post facto research design. According to the findings, NHM beneficiaries' social standing improved by 197.73 percent between before and after participating in the programme. When comparing before and after participation in the NHM programme, value addition in education increased by 178.12 percent, followed by investment in social functions (68.19 percent), annual income (30.53 percent), investment in savings (21.80 percent), employment generation (20.79 percent), and investment in assets (which increased by 6.82 percent). The entire mean value before the NHM programme was found to be 1241.80, compared to 2194.16 following participation in the NHM programme, suggesting a 76.69 percent increase in mean value, demonstrating a favourable impact of the NHM programme. Annual income, social standing, employment generation, value addition in education, and investment in social functions were all determined to be highly significant at the 1% level of significance in the statistical analysis of data. Investment in savings, on the other hand, was shown to be significant at a 5% level, while investment in assets was determined to be non-significant. At 1%, the overall dimensions of standard of life were determined to be significantly significant. The majority of the beneficiaries considered high horticulture crop production costs (95.83 percent, Rank I) to be the most significant constraint, followed by poor personnel follow-up (90.97 percent, Rank II), less subsidy (86.80 percent, Rank III), low horticulture crop productivity (86.11 percent, Rank IV), high post-harvest and handling losses (76.39 percent, Rank V), fewer trainings (47.92 percent, Rank VI), and (4.86 percent , Rank X). Beneficiaries' suggestions for effective implementation of the NHM programme include increasing subsidies (77.78 percent, Rank I), followed by proper follow-up of activities (29.16 percent, Rank II), increasing training programmes (16.67 percent, Rank III), providing more technical information under the NHM programme (08.34 percent, Rank IV), and the need for integrated farming system approaches under the NHM programme (06.25 percent , Rank V).
Author(s) Details
J. Raghuraja
ICAR-Taralabalu Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Davanagere, Karnataka, India.
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