Vol. 11, Issue 3 (2022)

Author(s):
Shailendra Pratap Singh, Dr. Ameesh J Stephen, Dr. Ashish S Noel and Paras Nath Jhariya

Abstract:
The Siddharthnagar district is divided into 5 tehsils and 14 blocks, where for Kalanamak production and constraints study the blocks were purposively selected whereas for estimation of seed replacement rate and for other objective estimations, the blocks were randomly selected. Barhni, Itwa, Shohratgarh, and Dumariyaganj, these four blocks are taken for further study about paddy seed distribution, utility and assessment of seed replacement rate for last 20 years. The primary data were certainly collected from the seed growers, distributers and farmers. The socio-economic details and various aspect of production and marketing of paddy seed were collected through various personal interview sessions with the help of pre-structured interview schedule. The secondary data were derived from state seed development and distribution bodies, Siddharthnagar Kirshi Bhawan, Vikas Bhawan (Naugadh) Sidharthnagar, from state economic survey 2019 and seed dacnet sites along with various e-sources. The percentage distribution to various variety grower and paddy growers at various sectors were selected block and villages in Siddharthnagar. Cluster analysis done to integrate the seed utilizing community according to their primary and secondary income and their educational as well occupational segregation. Trend analysis with indexing number assignments for measuring the difference of magnitude of a group of related variables with different units estimated. The sequence of related business deals (activates) from special input for specific product to primary production, grading, marketing certification etc, to final selling till consumers. The first cluster is of semi medium and medium farmers where the cluster contained (45) 65.2 percent of semi-medium of the total cluster population of (69) 100 percent farmers, in this group all farmers were following IFS as their occupation. Cluster 2 had mostly the medium farmers which counted to 48.9 percent out of those 74.5 percent (47) had occupational follow up of IFS+business firm. The third cluster formed had a total of 38 members in which most of them were small farm holders, having 76 percent of their population following only IFS as their occupation. income from secondary sources for cluster 1 were less than mean i.e., ₹ 25,753.62 out of the mean value of ₹30266.45, cluster 2 had mean secondary income of ₹ 65,328.98 and the cluster 3 had a mean income from secondary sources of ₹16684.21. The mean agricultural income was ₹ 34,958.09, where the cluster 1 had incremented income of ₹35942.03, cluster 2 had much higher income than mean income which was accounted as ₹50723.40 and lastly the cluster 3 had a mean income from primary sources of ₹17,642.11.