Vol. 9, Issue 3 (2020)

Author(s):
Prashant Singh Kourav, Kamini Bisht and Kalpna Shrivastava

Abstract:
Among all the agencies, input dealers are larger in number and spread even in the interior areas of the country. Unlike other agencies they need not to go the farmers to provide the agro-advisory services. Farmers themselves approach the input dealers for advice while purchasing inputs. Considering the importance of role of input dealers in agro-advisory services, the present study on role performance of agro input dealers in advisory services was conducted in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. The findings of the study revealed that majority of agro input dealers were in medium category of role performance followed by high and low. As far as constraints faced by input dealers in providing agro-advisory services to the farmer is considered, delay in payment by the farmers was one of the major problem faced by most of the agro-input dealers.