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Titre : IMPACT OF SOLAR PUMPSETS ON FARM ECONOMY IN ANANTHAPUR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

Auteur : MOHAMMAD IRFAN, SHAIK

Université de soutenance : Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur

Grade : Master of Business Administration (MBA] 2018

Résumé partiel
The present study entitled “Impact of Solar Pumpsets on Farm Economy in Ananthapur District of Andhra Pradesh” was intended to examine the investment required for installing solar pumpsets by the farmers, to study changes in cropping pattern and farm income, comparison of farm income distribution among the sample farmers and to study the impact of farm income on consumption and saving pattern of the sample farmers. Ananthapur district was purposively selected for the present study as it is an arid zone with frequent droughts and wherein rainfed and dryland agriculture of water thirst groundnut mono-cropping predominant, and wherein the Government and NGOs are trying to transform farmers’ cropping pattern to more remunerative high value horticultural crops with solar pumpsets and awareness on adopting water harvesting technologies and use of micro-irrigation for conjunctive and judicious use of water efficiently for irrigation. The list of mandals along with corresponding number of solar pumpsets was prepared. Four mandals with highest number of solar pumpsets were identified and purposively selected. Analogously one village from each mandal following the criterion of highest number of pumpsets was purposively selected. The farmers with solar pumpsets in the selected four villages were identified and 50 farmers were randomly selected. Another set of 50 farmers with out solar pumpsets were also randomly selected from the selected villages to serve as a control group. The villages Dorigallu, xiii Pemanakuntapalli, Shaikshanipalli and Utakallu of the mandals of Mudigubha, Nallamada, Uravakonda, Gooty were selected respectively.

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