Extension & Technological Needs of South Goa District Vegetable Growers to Accomplish Socio Economic Development

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to elaborate a matrix for assessing the socio economic development for vegetable cultivators. To measure this prospect, a questionnaire was constructed up and used as provision for face-to-face interviews piloted at the level of the South Goa district. Along with sustainability approach, acquaintance objectives of present study were to determine the extension & technological needs of vegetable growers in South Goa. The findings showed relations between different components of the dimensions deliberated, revealing their synergy in farm activity, later with the manifestation of certain variances in the levels of socio economic dimensions and sub-dimensions, which vary as a function of the precise types of vegetable production (conventional, ecologic, natural, mixed). Knowledge desires to be conveyed by vegetable growers have frequently been implicit as extension needs. Nevertheless, the obligation of extension services was more than just providing information about agricultural inputs and its supply chain. It was evident from the study that the foremost restraints like dearth of technical knowledge on IPM and INM, deficiency of innovativeness, absence of entrepreneurial ability, deprived marketing and storage services, less opportunity for post-harvest technologies, lack of operative supervision and monitoring by extension personnel were confronted by the vegetable growers of south Goa.