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 |
The study entitled “A study showing the relationship between extent of participation in management activities, with socio-economic and psychological characteristics of rural youths towards farming in Jorhat district of Assam”, following Ex-Post-Facto research design. A total of 200 respondents were selected by using multistage purposive cum random sampling technique. The data were collected by means of personal interview schedule during 25th Feb, 2016 - 3rd April, 2016. The findings revealed that age (0.589), size of operational land holding (0.172), annual income of the family (0.092), training exposure (0.483) and mass media exposure (0.435) of the respondents is positively significant and highly correlated with extent of participation in management activities. However, occupation of parents (= 30. 254*) had significant association at 5 per cent probability level with extent of participation in management activities. The regression coefficient of age, age (b = 0.534), sources of farm machineries and farm implements (b = -0.343) and attitude towards farming (b = 1.074) were found to be significant. The co-efficient of multiple determinations (R2=0.624) explain together 62.40 per cent to the total variation on the extent of participation in management activities.
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