The infuence of the Tinau Watershed Project on rice productivity in Palpa District, Nepal
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1986
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Rajesh K. Shrestha
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The study sought to determine the relationship of some selected variables influencing the socio-economic conditions of TWP and non-TWP-assisted farmers in terms of levels of rice productivity and use of rice technology.
Data showed that all the farmer-respondents were males. The average age of TWP-assisted farmers was 46.43 years while that of the non-TWP-assisted was 44.36. The average rice farm sizes of TWP-assisted and non-TWP-assisted farmers were 0.64 and 0.49 hectares, respectively. Majority of the farmers (81 per cent) were landlords in both groups. Majority (99 per cent) of the TWP-assisted farmers adopted rice technology from moderate to high efficiency and had increased their rice production also from moderate to high efficiency. On the other hand, only 34 per cent of non-TWP-assisted farmers adopted rice technology and increased their production both with moderate efficiency at the time of survey.
Results revealed that all the independent variables, namely: technicians' visit, farm demonstration, mass media exposure, farmers' training, agricultural credit, agricultural input, and irrigation services jointly influenced the levels of use of rice technology and rice productivity with moderate efficiency in TWP-assisted areas but with low efficiency in non-TWP-assisted areas.
Individually, technicians' visit, agricultural input and agricultural credit services influenced significantly the level of using rice technology in TWP-assisted areas not in non-TWP-assisted areas.
Only irrigation service was found to influence significantly the level of rice productivity in TWP-assisted areas but in non-TWP-assisted areas, technicians' visit and mass media exposure significantly influenced the level of rice productivity.
This study recommended that extension of TWP-programs be made in other parts of the district and farm problems such as lack of irrigation water, credit, inputs and trainings should be studied carefully by TWP and government sectors to come up with alternative solutions and to prioritize plans in agricultural development.