Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 1

Perception of farmers towards custom hiring service centres

  • Author:
  • Juhee Agrawal1,*, J.P. Sharma1, R.R. Burman1, P. Venkatesh2, Ankur Biswas3, Roaf Ahmad Parray4
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Published Online: Jan 4, 2020
  • Page Number: 145 to 149

1Division of Agricultural Extension, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012

2Division of Agricultural Economics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012

3Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi-110012

4Division of Agricultural Engineering, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012

*Corresponding author email id: juhee.agrawal123@gmail.com

Online published on 18 September, 2020.

Abstract

Farmer's perception towards any policy or services is highly important for any policy makers and servicemen to analyse any current new project and to establish new service centres respectively. Current study was conducted in Punj ab and Uttar Pradesh. In the present study, perception of farmers towards services of custom hiring is measured through perception scale and for this a scale was constructed in five-point continuum. The scale consists of 25 statements with dimensions like availability, accessibility, economic factors, efficiency, social factor and environmental factor. After development of scale, perception of farmers towards CHSCs was measured. The result showed that farmers of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh have significantly favourable perception towards custom hiring service centre based on the above dimensions.

Keywords

Custom hiring service centre, Perception, Scale