Vol. 11, Special Issue 3 (2022)

Author(s):
Nedhi Rani Sharma, NK Khare, PK Singh and Kamini Bisht

Abstract:
Farmer producer organizations are essential institutions for the empowerment, poverty alleviation, and advancement of farmers and rural poor. The present study was carried out in Adilabad and KB Asifabad district of Telangana. Out of these two districts four FPCs were purposively selected with the sample size of 191. The well structured interview schedule was developed for data collection and the study found that more than half of the members were in the middle age group, majority were male, had small size of landholding, medium level of farming experience, joint family type, medium annual income, medium mass media exposure, medium information seeking behaviour, decision making ability, medium achievement motivation. The coorelation between socio economic traits and perception showed that gender, education, landholding was significant with perception.