Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
Shireesha Devarakonda and Spandana P

Abstract:
Farmer innovations and re-inventions is a subject that is increasingly making people sit up and think. At the very least it underpins a refreshing new approach to indigenous environmental knowledge that goes further than just passive admiration. At the most it is a potentially important new direction for research and extension wherever else the conventional approaches have failed to deliver. To highlight the value of this rich resource and to develop mechanisms for local innovations and re-inventions to find their way into the formal research and development system, documentation of farmer innovations and re-inventions is necessary to give the real picture of its wealth. Majority of the farmer innovations/re-inventions 155 (94.51%) has shown high perceived effectiveness followed by medium 7(4.27%) and low 2 (1.22%) perceived with regard to the different attributes i.e., inexpensiveness, availability of inputs, high relative advantage, compatibility, low complexity, trialability, observability, predictability and profitability.