Factors determining farmers' progressiveness: A principal component analysis

RAKESH KUMAR K; SUDIPTA PAUL; PREMLATA SINGH; V P CHAHAL

doi:10.56093/ijas.v85i8.50823

Authors

RAKESH KUMAR K Assistant Commissioner, District Bagalkot, Government of Karnataka
SUDIPTA PAUL Scientist, ICAR-Zonal Project Directorate, Zone-III, Umiam, Meghalaya
PREMLATA SINGH Professor and Principal Scientist, Division of Agricultural Extension, IARI, New Delhi
V P CHAHAL Principal Scientist (Agricultural Extension), ICAR headquarters, New Delhi

https://doi.org/10.56093/ijas.v85i8.50823

Keywords:

Achievement motivation, Innovativeness, Principal component analysis, Progressiveness

Abstract

Progressiveness of farmers has become the key concern for overall development of farm business. Now a days farmers give relatively more importance to scientific farm information and knowledge over physical inputs/resources and innovation over land and capital possession. The present study was conducted with a sample size of seventy two progressive farmers in ten agro-climatic zones of Karnataka state aiming at tracing out the major factors governing farmers' progressiveness. Data were collected by personal interview using Q-sort methodology and analyzed using median analysis and principal component analysis. Six different factors could finally be extracted out of 17 relatively important variables governing progressiveness of farmers. These six factors were- scientific temperament, perseverance and hard work, cosmopoliteness, achievement motivation, entrepreneurial aptitude and work satisfaction. These factors can be used as input to predictive models or as benchmarks for developing scales or indices for measuring farmers' progressiveness. Moreover, the findings imply that these psycho-social factors contribute to a larger extent towards farmers' progressiveness, hence should invariably be addressed while planning developmental programmes for the farmers.

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Paper presented at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.