Author(s):

AG Angaitkar, Dr. PP Bhople and PD Todasam

Abstract: The study was carried out on Socio economic status of beneficiaries of producer company of Convergence of Agricultural Interventions in Maharashtra programme during the year 2017-2018. Data of 100 respondent’s from 12 villages were collected and the interpretation and analysis was done. The findings of the study revealed that, the majority of the beneficiaries were of above 50 years age group having up to high school level of education and small size of land holding with agriculture and allied as a major occupation. However, the observation also shows most of the respondents were having annual income Rs. 1,50,000 to 2,00,000 and medium size of family. It was also studied that, most of the beneficiaries have above 10 years farming experience and no any facility of irrigation. Majority of the beneficiaries had medium extension contact, economic motivation, scientific orientation and medium innovativeness. Also the beneficiaries are medium duration training receiver and have highly favourable attitude towards CAIM programme. From the correlation analysis the significant was tested at 0.01 and 0.05 level of significance and revealed that, 13 out of 14 variables were significant, remaining variables are non-significant. The significant variable includes Education, Land holding, Occupation, Annual income, Source of irrigation, Extension contact, Economic motivation, Scientific orientation, Innovativeness, Attitude and Training received. The non-significant variable includes Age, Size of family and Farming experience. It was found during multiple regression analysis that, these selected variables have 83.90 per cent contribution in socio economic status of beneficiaries.

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