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| Title: | Validation of participatory farming situation identification: A case of rainfed rice cultivation in selected area of West Bengal, India |
| Authors: | Goswami, Rupak
Biswas, Malay Sankar
Basu, Debabrata |
| Keywords: | Micro-farming situation
Farmers’ classification
Validation of indigenous classification
Rain-fed rice
Appropriate technology |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int.Cl.8:A01G 9/00, A01G 16/00, Go1W 1/14 |
| Abstract: | The present study was conducted to test the validity of a novel
participatory field tool that can identify micro-farming situation with special
reference to rain-fed rice cultivation in selected village
of North 24-Parganas district of West
Bengal, India.
A micro-farming situation was conceptualised as a sub-system of a relatively
large farming situation, which is relatively homogeneous in nature. Farmers of
the village themselves classified their agricultural fields into distinct
micro-farming situations through participatory mapping exercise. All the 70
farmers growing rainfed rice in that uninterrupted field were then interviewed
for recording their rain-fed rice cultivation practices. Most of the rain-fed
rice cultivation practices like variety
selection, time of sowing, transplanting and harvesting, seed rate, seedling
age, spacing, plant protection practices, fertilizer management and yield
differed significantly among these identified micro-farming situations.
This indicated the effectiveness of farmers’ classification. However, more
empirical evidence is needed – especially for different field crops – to
establish the validity of this tool. The tool can help to offer appropriate
technologies to the farmers for a technically precise and environmentally sound
agriculture. |
| Page(s): | 471-479 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.11(3) [July 2012]
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