Year: 2014 | Month: June | Volume 59 | Issue 2

Farmers Willingness to Pay for Public Agricultural Extension Services in Tripura State of North-East India

Amit Debnath R. Saravanan
DOI:10.5958/J.0976-4666.59.2.027

Abstract:

The study was conducted to know the farmers willingness to pay for public agricultural extension services. All the four districts of India’s state Tripurawas selected for the study and 80 farmers were selected randomly from two villages of each district. The results of the study revealed that 100 percent of the respondents were willing to pay for getting extension services. The average amount farmers were willing to pay was ` 34.42; whereas, the willingness to pay was according to the farm size of the farmers, farmers having more land were willing to pay more than the farmers having less cultivated area. All the farmers wanted to pay for plant protection information (100 %), followed by majority of the farmers were willing to pay for marketing information (93.33 %), credit services (86.67 %) etc. From the findings of the study of the it was recommended to introduce fee based extension services on selected topics/area based on the preferences of the farmers to provide need-based and quick services to the farmers’.





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