AN APPRAISAL OF AGRICULTURE FARMS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, UTTAR PRADESH

A. SINGH¹, MONI SINGH², MANISH KUMAR³, R.P. SHARMA^4
1Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dewas, 455111, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, Madhya Pradesh
²Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dewas, 455111, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, Madhya Pradesh
³Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dewas, 455111, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, Madhya Pradesh
⁴Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dewas, 455111, Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Gwalior, 474002, Madhya Pradesh

Received : 06-08-2016     Accepted : 03-11-2016     Published : 06-12-2016
Volume : 8     Issue : 59       Pages : 3283 - 3287
Int J Agr Sci 8.59 (2016):3283-3287

Keywords : Farm productivity, Cropping pattern, Cropping intensity
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : None declared
Author Contribution : None declared

Uttar Pradesh is the most populous and one of the main food grains producing state of the country. The Department of Agriculture, U.P. is responsible for transfer of improved agriculture technologies to the farmers and also assist them in timely availability of agricultural inputs like seeds, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, fungicides etc. with a view to demonstrating the technical feasibility, economic viability and social acceptability of location. Specific agro techniques to the farmers, it has established 177 agricultural farms popularly known as seed multiplication farms in different agro climatic regions of the state. A three stage stratified random sampling techniques has been used to select the division, district and govt. agricultural farms. 15 Govt. Agricultural farms were selected and categorized as general, usar, pathari and problematic. The selected 15 Govt. Agricultural farms fall under different categories by viz. general (7), usar(3), pathari(3) and problematic (2). The main crops like wheat, paddy, mustard/toriya and gram/pea were grown on the general farms. In this categories, wheat accounted the highest percentage being 33.17 to the total cropped area followed by paddy 21.53 percent, mustard/toriya 8.74 percent and gram/pea 3.62 percent. The cropping intensity on general farm, it varied from 166.74 to 219.44 percent with an average of 200.48 percent. On usar farms, it varied from 153.21 to 200.00 percent with an average of 182.06 percent. On pathari farms, it varied farm 100 to 198.13 percent with an average of 142.84 percent. On problematic farms, it varied from 175.58 to 198.39 percent with an average of 187.19 percent. The main constraints to low productivity on these farms were fertilizer management, less knowledge of plant protection and herbicides, late sowing of crops and late irrigation respectively. The excess of chanas and labour, poor labour efficiency and availability of labour respectively were the economic problem of the sample farm. Unavailability of imprest money, excess of inspection officer, wild animals, local pressure of leaders and untimely inspection respectively were the administrative and other problem of these farms.