Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Battu Preethi and GK Sasane

Abstract:
Agriculture is a dynamic combination of physical, socio-institutional, and techno-economic variables, its nature is always changing with the primary goal of boosting food grain production. Despite technological and economic developments, farmers' livelihoods remain precarious due to natural disasters and market swings. The study was conducted in the year 2021, expost-facto research design was used for the study. 75 insured farmers under Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS) and 75 non –insured Pomegranate farmers are selected from Solapur district from three tehsils, from each tehsil three villages are selected a total of 150 farmers are selected. Majority of the Pomegranate insured farmers were of middle age (50.67%). Similarly in case of Pomegranate non-insured farmers majority of the farmers were of middle aged (41.33%). Majority of the insured farmers are having higher education or secondary education compared to the non -insured farmers. More than three fourth of the insured farmers were doing Agriculture for living (84.00%), non-insured farmers 72% of the farmers are having agriculture as occupation. More than half of the Pomegranate insured farmers are small farmers (62.67%), non-insured farmers majority of the farmers are small (61.34%). Also majority of the insured and non-insured farmers were having fair cropping pattern. Majority of the farmers (insured and non-insured) were having medium sources of information, extension contacts, scientific orientation, economic motivation and risk orientation.