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Feasibility and appropriateness of recommended sorghum production technologies
Several initiatives were taken by the Directorate of Sorghum Research and concerned organizations to disseminate promising sorghum technologies. However, many of them were not accepted by the farmers at desired level due to several reasons. Therefore, it was felt necessary to assess the feasibility...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4447846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26034668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-453 |
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author | Chapke, Rajendra R |
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description | Several initiatives were taken by the Directorate of Sorghum Research and concerned organizations to disseminate promising sorghum technologies. However, many of them were not accepted by the farmers at desired level due to several reasons. Therefore, it was felt necessary to assess the feasibility and appropriateness of recommended technologies as perceived primarily by the research system and followed by the extension personnel. These steps were felt to be a forerunner to screen the recommended technologies for their dissemination. The documentation of the sorghum production technologies/practices for both rainy and post-rainy season was made. The perception of 50 researchers regarding the feasibility of these technologies elucidated that out of 21 documented technologies, six were having feasibility scores of > 4.5 and < 2.2, while the rest of the nine technologies had a medium feasibility score in between 2.0 and 4.5 on a feasibility continuum ranging from 1.0 (not feasible) to 5.0 (highly feasible). Out of these six assessed technologies, extension personnel have perceived three each of technologies as highly appropriate and feasible. Correlation of eight indicators of appropriateness with feasibility of technologies was significant whereas, relative advantage had no correlation. Five indicators of appropriateness namely, simplicity, observability, physical compatibility, production sustainability and cost together explained 96.63 per cent of the total variation in feasibility. It stated that the five indicators are contributing significantly in feasibility of sorghum production technologies. These need to be taken into consideration while developing and disseminating the technologies. |
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spelling | pubmed-44478462015-06-01 Feasibility and appropriateness of recommended sorghum production technologies Chapke, Rajendra R Springerplus Research Several initiatives were taken by the Directorate of Sorghum Research and concerned organizations to disseminate promising sorghum technologies. However, many of them were not accepted by the farmers at desired level due to several reasons. Therefore, it was felt necessary to assess the feasibility and appropriateness of recommended technologies as perceived primarily by the research system and followed by the extension personnel. These steps were felt to be a forerunner to screen the recommended technologies for their dissemination. The documentation of the sorghum production technologies/practices for both rainy and post-rainy season was made. The perception of 50 researchers regarding the feasibility of these technologies elucidated that out of 21 documented technologies, six were having feasibility scores of > 4.5 and < 2.2, while the rest of the nine technologies had a medium feasibility score in between 2.0 and 4.5 on a feasibility continuum ranging from 1.0 (not feasible) to 5.0 (highly feasible). Out of these six assessed technologies, extension personnel have perceived three each of technologies as highly appropriate and feasible. Correlation of eight indicators of appropriateness with feasibility of technologies was significant whereas, relative advantage had no correlation. Five indicators of appropriateness namely, simplicity, observability, physical compatibility, production sustainability and cost together explained 96.63 per cent of the total variation in feasibility. It stated that the five indicators are contributing significantly in feasibility of sorghum production technologies. These need to be taken into consideration while developing and disseminating the technologies. Springer International Publishing 2014-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4447846/ /pubmed/26034668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-453 Text en © Chapke; licensee Springer. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Chapke, Rajendra R Feasibility and appropriateness of recommended sorghum production technologies |
title | Feasibility and appropriateness of recommended sorghum production technologies |
title_full | Feasibility and appropriateness of recommended sorghum production technologies |
title_fullStr | Feasibility and appropriateness of recommended sorghum production technologies |
title_full_unstemmed | Feasibility and appropriateness of recommended sorghum production technologies |
title_short | Feasibility and appropriateness of recommended sorghum production technologies |
title_sort | feasibility and appropriateness of recommended sorghum production technologies |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4447846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26034668 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2193-1801-3-453 |
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