Year: 2019 | Month: June | Volume 64 | Issue 2
Socio-Economic Characteristics and Problems Faced by Apple Cultivators Under with Drip and without Drip Irrigation System
Sreelekha Kudamala
Subhash Sharma
Amit Guleria
DOI:10.30954/0424-2513.2.2019.22
Abstract:
Apple is the main fruit crop of Himachal Pradesh and is grown in nine out of the twelve districts. It contributes to 40 per cent of the fruit growing areas in Himachal Pradesh. A sample of 60 farmers cultivating apple was selected using multistage simple random sampling. Out of 60 farmers 30 farmers are with drip irrigation and 30 farmers are without drip irrigation. Literacy situation revealed that 93.37 per cent family members were literates with a literacy index of 3.37 in case of with drip irrigation farms. In case of without drip irrigation farms, 91.61 per cent family members were found literates with a literacy index of 3.05. Average size of land holding was 1.34 and 1.38 ha on with drip and without drip irrigation farms, respectively which is low due to more area under apple. Area under apple has been found to be 64.35 per cent out of total cultivated land on with drip irrigation farms and in case of without drip irrigation farms it was 67.09 per cent out of total cultivated land. The main problems of farmers with drip irrigation were clogging of emitters (83.33%), difficulty in inter cropping and high cost of spare parts (66.67%) each and irregular electric supply and spare parts not available at village (63.33%) each. The main problems of farmers without drip irrigation were high cost of establishment (86.67%), lack of knowledge on subsidy (73.33%) and lack of technical knowledge (70.00%).
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