National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
India has been facing an alarming threat of food insecurity ever since the independence when majority of the agriculture policies and plans emphasized on reducing the problem of hunger, food security, malnutrition and poverty. Despite half of the population working in agriculture and a splendid growth in the agricultural sector leading to high economic development of the country, still malnutrition, hunger and poverty prevail in India, exceedingly. Additionally, the multiplying population of the country and the increasing pressure on land does not seem to keep pace with the agricultural production. In order to combat the challenge of deficit food availability in the country which is a prime objective of Indian agricultural policy, the Government of India launched National Food Security Mission (NFSM) in 2007-08 which consists of crop focused interventions contributing towards increasing the productivity of crops thereby it also contributing towards increasing socio economic status of beneficiary farmers. Therefore, it was felt necessary to assess the impact of NFSM interventions on socio economic status of the beneficiary farmers. Based on the review of literature and discussion with experts, five dimensions of Socio Economic Status were identified. The relevancy rating was obtained from 60 judges in the concerned area. Based on the relevancy percentage and relevancy coefficient the indicators were considered for inclusion in the socio economic status index. To compute the scale values for each of the identified dimension their relative importance in the socio economic status was worked out by adopting normalized ranking method.
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