1PhD Scholar, ICAR- ATARI
2Professor and Head, Department of Extension Education, ICAR- ATARI
3Principal Scientist, ICAR- ATARI
4Professor & Head, Department of and Mathematics and Statistics, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidhyalaya, Jabalpur (M.P.) India
Online published on 31 March, 2021.
The study is concerned with the constraints faced by tribal farmers in practicing Integrated Farming System (IFS) in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh using non parametric Kruskal-Wallis test. The various types of constraints confronted by the farmers are production, situational, financial, marketing and extension which are partitioned into a number of different components consisting of the overall mean and rank as 2.17 (I), 2.15 (II), 2.10 (III), 1.92 (IV) and 1.81 (V) respectively. The Kruskal–Wallis statistic has been applied to the combined scores ranking of the constraints which is found to be 6.07 smaller than its tabulated value (9.48) at 4 degrees of freedom at 5 per cent level of significance which indicates that all the constraints confronted by the farmers during study do not differ significantly showing a similar pattern among the constraints.
Constraints, integrated farming system, kruskal- wallis test, tribal farmers
