Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
TP Dahiphale, Dr. JR Kadam and SA Adate

Abstract:
The study was conducted in Dapoli, Khed and Lanja tahsils of Ratnagiri district of Konkan region. The sample constituted 120 farmers following agroforestry drawn, from twelve villages. The respondents were interviewed with the help of specially designed schedule. Exploratory research design was used for the present study. The data were collected by personal interviews. The analysis of data revealed that majority of the respondents had low-cost mechanical tools and electrical trap to protect their crop from wild animals, show the film about agro-forestry at village, provide the literature regarding trees and its planting techniques to farmers along with the seedling, animal health services government should be provided at nominal rate, educate them about latest rules and regulations regarding cutting or felling and transportation of the farm forestry produce, clinical services should be more accessible to farmers for livestock and poultry, Informed about the free supply (46.27 percent) of seedlings and the place and time of distribution as well as it should be made available at the first rain of the season, government should recruit sufficient number of veterinaries at each panchayat, disseminate the technical and marketing information through radio and television 69 programme in local language, the financial support should be made available for small and marginal farmers and long-term loan should be provided to them through co-operative societies, establish marketing facilities and where there are no market facilities for purchase of small quantity of forest produces, organize agro-forestry demonstration plot on farmer's field as well as on Government or Agricultural University farms, give advice to them about selection of land and planting trees on their farms, motivated to participate in Van-Mahotsav programme and to form tree grouters co-operative societies.