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Not AvailableThe study was conducted on 45 agritourism host farmers and 200 agritourists altogether selected from two states, viz. Maharashtra and Goa to delineate the challenges in managing agritourism farm and sustainability of this venture. The major challenges in proper management were high cost of land development and initial investment, weak communication skills of staff, Inability to introduce more activities and lack of specific policy for promotion of agritourism. Farmers of Maharashtra were found to be better placed with respect to cost of labour and policy initiatives by government. All the stakeholders agreed that proper policy level research along with public-private partnership for promotion and sustainability of agritourism is much essential. Farmers' ability to successfully integrate this enterprise to suit their socioeconomic and agro-ecological conditions would further enhance its profitability and sustainabilityNot Availabl

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Not AvailableThe community radio has made an impression in all grounds of rural society in which there was a need to assess socio-technological empowerment of rural households. The study was taken up to compare the status of community members’ participation in community radios, operational under three different hosting agencies i.e. State Agricultural University (SAU), Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and Non-Government Organization (NGO). The community radio stations namely Pantnagar Janvani (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology), Pravara (KVK, Ahmednagar) and Yeralavani (Yerala Projects Society, Sangli) were selected purposively. Four villages have been selected randomly from one purposively selected block. Forty (40) respondents from four randomly selected villages from each CRS coverage area/ broadcast range along with 10 staff members of each CRS were selected for the study. Thus, a total of 150 respondents constituted the sample for the study. About 43 per cent of respondents had low level of participation in programme production and broadcasting followed by moderate level (40 %) and high level (17.50 %). Education and perception about CRS programmes were significantly influencing extent of participation of respondents.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableThe study was taken up to compare the content broadcasted and good management practices followed in three community radio stations (CRS) operational under state agricultural university (SAU), Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) and non-government organization (NGO). A sum of 120 listeners and 30 staff members were interviewed. Some of the good management practices of SAU-CRS recorded were: more number of village volunteers, versatile content creation, connecting with sponsoring agencies, knowledge back up by scientists. KVK-CRS practiced a messaging service to give alert to the listeners about important programmes. NGO-CRS maintained 12 members’ content management committee, which comprised rural women and innovative farmers. It has also installed wind mill to generate electricity during power cut. Major programmes aired from the community radios were listed across broadcast timings subjects covered, duration, frequency per week, format of presentation and resource person.Not Availabl

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Not AvailablePulses are generally grown under rainfed, highly unstable and complex production environments, substantial variability in soil and environmental factors, high year to year output variability, and variation in soil moisture. One is required to emphasize the need for identifying and quantifying level of adoption and its determinants across agroclimatic regions. The net availability of pulses has come down from 60 g/day/capita in 1951 to 41.6 g/day/capita in 2012-13 due to stagnant production and rapid increase in population. Among so many, the most important way to increase production in the short-run is to reduce yield gaps between research station, on-farm demonstration and farmer’s fields. The yield gap and constraint analysis was carried out for pigeonpea and chickpea in high potential high gap states and districts of India. The results showed high to medium level of adoption gaps in almost all the recommendation domains in both the crops. Nearly 80 percent of the respondents had not adopted manurial aspects of the crop and 76 percent had not gone for any plant protection measures. Only 29% adopted the recommended varieties and nearly 60% adopted agronomic practices like line sowing, weed management, spacing, presowing irrigation and proper land preparation. It can be recommended that in order to have the latest information on pulse improvements from researchers, it will be necessary to have appropriate training for the extension workers and subsequently to farmers with availability of matc11hing input supply system.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableThe present study was conducted to assess the impact of agritourism as perceived by its stakeholders. The sample comprised of forty-five Agritourism Centres (ATCs) drawn from two states i.e. Maharashtra (n=30) and Goa (n=15). The total number of visitors selected for the study was 200, thus consisting of 100 visitors each from respective states. It followed an ex-post facto research design and was purposively conducted in Maharashtra and Goa. The impact was measured in terms of change in employment days and perceived overall socio-economic changes. An average number of employment days in Maharashtra and Goa had increased from 149 to 202 man-days/year and 117 to 208 man-days/year viz. after 2016. Significant changes were observed in the installation of new irrigation system and new farm structure for activities and games in Maharashtra whereas in Goa, ATC farms witnessed significant improvement in the installation of new processing and postharvesting equipment and arrangements for entertainment along with the installation of a new irrigation system. Both the ATC hosts showed significant social changes in social participation, increase in external contacts, and recognition and awards. A significant difference was observed among the compared benefits as perceived by tourists in terms of learning more about nature, to think about their values, recalling good times from the past and to have a change from their daily routine.Not Availabl