Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
Anitha Raj N and K Shivaramu

Abstract:
The study was conducted during 2020-21 in three districts (Mandya, Chikkaballapur and Tumakuru) of Karnataka where two Taluks were selected to study the Economic Performance of Farmers in Different Farming Situations in assured, protected and rainfed farming situation farmers, 180 respondents were selected using purposive random sampling method. Data was collected using structured interview schedule through personal interview method. The collected data was tabulated and analyzed using percentages, correlation and regression. Ex-post facto research design was employed for the study. The findings revealed that farmers in protected farming situations had obtained relatively higher mean score (297.93) followed by assured farming situation (243.09) and rainfed farming situation (229.94) respectively.extension agency contact (r=0.412), extension participation (r=0.412), innovativeness (r=0.412), time management (r=0.412), achievement motivation (r=0.371),scientific orientation (r=0.356) and annual income (r=0.334) had positive and highly significant relation with economic performance of farmers in protected farming situation at one per cent level. Fourteen out of twenty independent variables viz., scientific orientation, livestock possession, material possession, extension agency contact, achievement motivation, extension participation, innovativeness, decision making ability, annual income, cosmopoliteness, land holding, time management, mass media exposure and farming commitment had significantly contributed to the economic performance of farmers.The major problems were Farming is not profitable, high usage of labours and increase in the cost of inputs. The economic performance of farmers under assured farming situations is medium. This may be because of the reason that majority of the farmers spends more on luxury things. Spends more by taking loan from money lenders leading to indebtedness. Thus, it is advisable to the farmers to maintain financial records and spend judiciously and to get the loans from government institutions.