Relationship Between Extent of Participation of Rural Youths towards Farm Operation with Socio - Economic and Psychological Characteristics in Jorhat District of Assam
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Abstract
The study entitled “Relationship between extent of participation in farm operation, with socio- economic and
psychological characteristics of rural youths towards farming in Jorhat district of Assam”, following ex-post-facto
research design. A total of 200 respondents were selected using multistage purposive cum random sampling technique.
The data were collected by means of personal interview schedule during 25th Feb, 2016 - 3rd April, 2016. The findings
revealed that age (0.50), size of family (0.042), size of operational land holding (0.043) and attitude towards farming
(0.528) of the respondents was positively significant and highly correlated with extent of participation in farm operations.
2 Whereas, educational level (x = 69.206*) and occupation of parents (x = 40.92*) had significant association at 5 per cent probability level with extent of participation in farm operation. The regression coefficient of age (b = 0.797), educational
level: higher secondary (b = -6.420), diploma/certificate course (b = -8.449), graduate (b = -10.877), sources of farm
machineries and farm implements (b = -0.573), training exposure (b = 1.591) and attitude towards farming (b = 0.796)
2 were found to be significant. The co-efficient of multiple determinations (R =0.63) explain together 63.20 per cent to the
total variation on the extent of participation in farm operations
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