Impact of National Horticulture Mission on Socio-Economic Status of Beneficiaries in Davanagere District of Karnataka


Edited by
J. Raghuraja
ICAR-Taralabalu Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Davanagere, Karnataka, India.

 

ISBN 978-93-5547-224-3 (Print)
ISBN 978-93-5547-232-8 (eBook)
DOI: 10.9734/bpi/mono/978-93-5547-224-3

 

Central Government and respective State Governments are implementing several agricultural development programmes for the betterment of farming community in the last seven decades. At national level these development programmes brought considerable changes in economic growth of the sector and also attained near self-sufficiency in food security. One such programme is National Horticultural Mission (NHM) launched by Central Government in 2004-05 for holistic development of horticulture sector in the country. This programme is regionally differentiated with district as unit and with highest allocation of funds since independence in agricultural sector. The components of NHM consists of area expansion in horticulture crops, increased production and productivity, high-tech horticulture, skill development and capacity building of farmers, plant protection measures, support to organic farming, mechanization, employment generation, post-harvest management and processing and marketing support. The programme consists of subsidies, material support, technical guidance and capacity building to identified farmers. In Karnataka, the programme is implemented by Karnataka State Department of Horticulture from 2006 onwards in phased manner and from 2009 onwards the programme is implemented throughout the state.

These research findings indicate the impact of NHM programme on individual beneficiaries level from all the 6 blocks of Davanagere district covering 24 villages and 144 beneficiaries. This book contains the impact of National Horticulture Mission on socio-economic status of beneficiaries in Davanagere district of Karnataka state. The impact of the programme is analysed keeping standard of living of beneficiaries before and after participation in NHM. Standard of living is a complex terminology and to understand it better it is expressed in terms annual income, social status, employment generation and re-investment pattern in terms value addition in education, investment on assets, investment on savings, investment on social functions. The computed standard of living of beneficiaries is correlated and regretted to establish relationship and extant of contribution with personal variables of beneficiaries for better understanding. The constraints and suggestions of beneficiaries in implementation of NHM programme are documented. The research findings are immense practical value to concerned implementing agency and policy makers to address the identified lacunas in NHM and other similar development programmes.


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Impact of National Horticulture Mission on Socio-Economic Status of Beneficiaries in Davanagere District of Karnataka

J. Raghuraja

Impact of National Horticulture Mission on Socio-Economic Status of Beneficiaries in Davanagere District of Karnataka, 22 February 2022, Page 118
https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mono/978-93-5547-224-3

The research study titled ‘impact of National Horticulture Mission on socio-economic status of beneficiaries in Davanagere district of Karnataka’ was conducted in all the six blocks of Davanagere district of Karnataka state namely; Channagiri, Honnali, Harihar, Jagalur, Harapanahalli and Davanagere. Four villages having the highest number of NHM beneficiaries from each taluk were selected for the study. From each these 24 selected villages, 6 beneficiaries were selected randomly considering the criteria that the farmers who are beneficiaries under NHM programme from 2008-09 to 2013-14. Thus total sample size for the study was 144 beneficiaries. The data was collected with the help of pre-tested interview schedule from the respondents included in the sample. The data was analyzed using statistical tests including frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation,       chi-square. Ex-post facto research design employed for the study. The results reveal that social status of NHM beneficiaries increased by 197.73 per cent between before and after participation in NHM programme. Whereas, value addition in education is increased by 178.12 per cent followed by investment on social functions (68.19%), annual income (30.53%), investment on savings (21.80%), employment generation (20.79%) and investment on assets is increased by 6.82 percent compared to before and after participation in NHM programme. The overall mean value before NHM programme was found to be 1241.80 as compared to 2194.16 after participation in NHM and increase of mean value was found to be 76.69 per cent indicating positive impact of NHM programme. The statistical analysis of data reveals that annual income, social status, employment generation, value addition in education and investment on social functions was found to be highly significant at one per cent level of significance. Whereas, investment on savings was found to be significant at five per cent level and investment on assets found to be non-significant. The overall dimensions of standard of living found to be highly significant at one per cent. Majority of the beneficiaries perceived high production costs of horticulture crops (95.83%, Rank I) was the major constraint followed by poor follow up of activities by the personnel (90.97%, Rank II), less subsidy (86.80%, Rank III), low productivity of horticulture crops (86.11%, Rank IV), high post-harvest and handling losses (76.39%, Rank V), less number of trainings (47.92%, Rank VI), less numbers of extension activities (34.03%, Rank VII), less prices in the market (25.69%, Rank VIII), lack of transpiration and cold storage facilities (15.97%, Rank IX) and frequent transfer of personnel (4.86%, Rank X). The suggestions given by the beneficiaries for effective implementation of NHM programme are subsidies under NHM needs to be increased (77.78%, Rank I), followed by proper follow up of activities (29.16%, Rank II), Training programmes needs to be increased (16.67%, Rank III), more technical information needs to be provided under NHM programme (08.34%, Rank IV) and need of integrated farming system approaches under NHM (06.25%, Rank V).