Bøger af A. C. Jatapara

Gram is one of the important grain legume crop grown in most parts of the world for its several uses as snake food, sweets, condiments and vegetables are prepared from its world-wide. In Gujarat gram covers about 17,5500 ha area with 19,9800 million tones productions (Anonymous 2011). Gram is cultivated as one of the major legume crop, in almost all the districts of Gujarat state. Amongst this, Dahod, Jamnagar, Surendranagar, Patan, and Porbandar are the major gram producing districts.Main gram research station Junagadh has released various improved cultivation practices for gram crop and are being communicated to the gram growers through various extension agencies like transfer of technologies centre (TOTs) like Krushi Vigyan Kendra (KVKs), Farmer Training Center (FTCs), Tribal Training Center (TTCs), Tribal Research and Training Center (TRTC), Tribal Farm Women Training Center (TFWTC) etc. State Department of Agriculture (SDAs), State Agricultural University (SAUs) and Non Government Organizations (NGOs).

Every country which has modernized its agriculture and has achieved higher production has done so, only through the introduction of science and technology into the farming system. During the last 65 years, a number of changes have taken place in Gujarat and India through implementation of various develop¬ment programmes. In spite of this, we are yet to modernize the rural peasants and their economy up to the desired level. In Gujarat, there are certain districts, where progress in peasantry modernization is very low in general and tribal districts in particular. Integrated Tribal Development Project (ITDP) was implemented in 1976 throughout the state in tribal pockets for welfare of the tribal peasants even though majority of the peasants in this area not yet able to reach expected level of socio-techno-economic change and agricultural modernization. To assess this situation present study on "An impact analysis of peasantry modernization in agriculture under Integrated Tribal Development Project of Sabarkantha district".