Impact of Technological Interventions on Doubling Farmer's Income in Hingoli District

Hingoli district is in Marathwada region of Maharashtra state. The district has 4,24,589 ha area in Kharif season spread over 610 villages, however it reduces to 18,739 ha in Rabi Seasons with 101 villages. The major crops of the district are soybean, turmeric, cotton, pigeon pea and gram. The district suffers from various natural calamities like climate change, flood, droughts and non-seasonal rainfall, changes in temperature, urbanization, and fragmented land holding. For resolving above problems in agriculture there is need to commercialize agriculture, change is farming system, cropping pattern and adoption of allied agricultural related activities to ensure an all-round development of farming families and improving standard of living of farmers in Hingoli district. Keeping in view the above, 110 farmers were selected in nineteen villages of Kalamnuri, Aundha Nagnath and Hingoli block of the district for intervention under doubling farmer's income during 2020-2021. The data were collected using a wellstructured and pretested interview schedule by covering all dimensions. The study reflected that a total of 71.82 per cent of respondents were middle aged (36 to 55 yrs), while 92.73% of respondents were male. The respondents were having middle school (41.82) % to 10^th standard education levels (34.55%), 34.55 % had marginal land holding (less than 1.0 ha), 44.55 per cent had medium to high net income (Rs. 62162/-224900/-) per annum. It was noticed that income from field crop increased by 182.24% due to technological interventions with the contribution of 47.95% in additional income.