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Data collection Support from PRISM, Matharihat

For the purpose of project, on behalf of Shri Nilangshu Gain, Officer-in-charge of Swanirbhar, Baduria, North 24 Paraganas,W.B., I contacted Ms. Nita Dhar, Officer-in-charge of PRISM, Matharihat, Jalpaiguri. Ms. Nita and Ms. Jhuma and other field workers provided us very nice hospitality and support to exchange ideas with farmers of Uttar, Madhya khayrabari and some farmers of Totopara. They arranged farmers' meeting and assisted us in interpreting the language in terms of local language, Sadri. We collected data from them through questionnaire. After collection of data, some farmers said- “ First time, we get chance to analyze ourselves”. Some farmers started rethinking of new path for development.

I found all the office bearers of PRISM as enthusiastic, creative, dedicated and benevolent to uplift the down trodden people. They kept themselves engaged in this noble profession disregarding their personal needs. Their main activities include awareness generation and distribution of basic amenities. They usually took different projects for training and distribution. They followed participatory rural appraisal system in identification of community needs. This helps them to develop community oriented training needs. Next, they prepared community need oriented IEC materials in Bengali and Hindi languages. They disseminate schemes of the Govt. through community development programs, scout etc.
Another interesting thing is their social networking and reliability in support services. They established good linkage and trained villagers different modalities of social networking.

I wish their success. Without their support, I could not collect data.

Support from PRISM, Matharihat

For the purpose of project, on behalf of Shri Nilangshu Gain, Officer-in-charge of Swanirbhar, Baduria, North Paraganas, I contacted Ms. Nita Dhar, Officer-in-charge of PRISM, Matharihat, Jalpaiguri. Ms. Nita and Ms. Jhuma and other field workers provided us very nice hospitality and support to exchange ideas with farmers of Uttar, Madhya khayerbari and some farmers of Totopara. They arranged farmers' meeting and assisted us in interpreting the language in terms of local language, Sadri. We collected data from them.

I found them as enthusiastic, creative, dedicated and benevolent to uplift the down trodden people. They kept themselves engaged in this noble profession disregarding their personal needs. Their main activities include awareness generation and distribution of basic amenities. They usually took different projects for training and distribution. They followed participatory rural appraisal system in identification of community needs. This helps them to develop community oriented training needs. Next, they prepared community need oriented IEC materials in Bengali and Hindi languages. They dissemiante schemes of the Govt through community development programs, scout etc.
Another interesting thing is their social networking and reliability in support services. They established good linkage and trained villagers different modaliteis of social networking.
I wish their success. Without their support, I could not collect data.

domains

These domains are (a) Monitoring environmental uncertainty; (b) Enactive Mastery experience; (c) Self-regulation; (d) Vicarious experience and (e) controlling physiological and emotional states.

Monitoring Environment

Enactive mastery

Bandura (1997) cites four determinants or sources of feelings of self-efficacy. The first, enactive mastery, refers to knowledge and skill gained through experience and perseverance. In order for self-efficacy to be gained, some failures must be experienced. If success comes too easily, the individual is likely to feel less of a sense of accomplishment and feelings of mastery are likely to be diminished. Elder and Liker (1982) found that women who faced economic hardship and exhibited adaptive behavior during the Great Depression felt more self-assured later in life than those who did not have to struggle with poverty. Progressive mastery has been shown to enhance feelings of self-efficacy and improve analytic thinking, goal setting, and performance (Bandura and Jourden, 1991).

When small failures are encountered, the individual has the opportunity to make adjustments to actions taken and exercise better control over what is taking place (Bandura, 1997). In this way, a sustained effort leads to a greater sense of self-efficacy. Whether success or failure occurs is less important than how the individual perceives the significance of the event and the individual’s overall competence (Bandura, 1982).

Enactive mastery has been found to be the most influential source of self-efficacy, leading to stronger and more generalized feelings of self-efficacy than that which relies exclusively on the other three sources of self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997) which are described below.

Ref:


Ref:Bandura, A. (1997). Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company.

Bandura, A. & Jourden, F. J. (1991). Self-regulatory mechanisms governing the impact
of social comparison on complex decision making. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 60(6), 941-951.


http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/effbook3.html

Budbud, Burdwan

16.8.2011
Burdwan district is situated nearby Damodar river. Here land is suitable for rice cultivation.
On the way to Durgapur highway, there is Krishi Vigyan Kendra located at Budbud. KVK is engaged in agricultural research and dissemination of knowledge through in house and field training. Dr. Rahman is the senior scientist and in-charge of Krishi Vigyan kendra, Budbud.
We contacted him for collection of data from two villages - KVK adopted and KVK non-adopted village.

Me, Ms. Suchandra Ghosh, project linked person and Dr. Rahman went to Burdwan on 16th August, 2011. Dr. Rahman extended full support to arrange accommodation in the campus and collection of data from 16-17th August.

In both villages, farmer meeting was held in local club room. Dr. Rahman initially talked to local people about the proposed meeting. After meeting, we arranged lunch for all the participants.

Farmers in the KVK adopted village are more aware of new technology in crop production. Here farmers themselves are engaged in sowing seeds whereas few farmers in non adopted village are engaged in sowing. Former depends on labour as well as own effort where as later depends on labour. Does it mean that knowledge facilitate role enacting ?

I expected presence of more labourers and bargadars or share croppers. Few labourers attended the meeting. It appears to me that meeting with only sharecroppers or with labourers are more important so that my sample will be more distributed.

Farmers of both villages follow both organic and inorganic cultivation. Non-adopted village farmers were more confused about new technology adoption.

Budgeting resource

Our observation and interview with farmers show that farmers are not aware of enterprise and family budget. Below is the brief idea about enterprise budget.

FARM PLANNING

Planning means taking decisions in advance. It stimulates thinking, broadens understanding & challenges the farmer to move forward. It is a forward-looking approach.

The farm plan helps a farmer to decide how to combine new ideas & old ones to his best advantage. By identifying his credit & supply needs, the farm plan helps him to arrange for the timely supplies of credit, seeds, fertilisers, etc. A specific farm plan setting fort his expected output,expenses & income, serves as a sound basis on which a credit institution can give him production credit, based on his productive capability rather than on his net financial assets. It is out of his income & not through the sale of assets that the cultivator has to pay off his loan. Thus the farm plan or the budget is to the farmer what the blue-print of the architect is to a building contractor. It shows what is to be done & how it is to be done. It furnishes an organised & logical approach to his problems & helps him to work out the solution.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF FARM BUDGETING & PLANNING

There are three main types of farm budgetings:

• Enterprise budgeting
• Partial budgeting
• Full or complete budgeting & planning.

Enterprise budgeting. The enterprise budgets are the input-output relationship for individual enterprises. An enterprise budget includes all the variable resources required per unit (a hectare/animal/tree, etc.) of an enterprise & its cost, the expected output,gross returns, etc. A format of an enterprise budget is given in Table 1.

TABLE 1: format of an enterprise budget

Items

Quantity(kg/litre)

Value(Rs)

GROSS RETURNS
Main product
By-product
Total
CASH VARIABLE EXPENSES
1. Seed & seed treatment
(i)Seed
(ii)Sub-total
2. Manures & fertilisers
A. Farmyard manure
B. Chemical fertilisers
(i)CAN urea
(ii)Superphosphate
(iii)Muriate of Potash
Sub-total
3. Insecticides & fungicides
4. Tractor fuel cost
5. Irrigation hours
6. Human labour
7. Threshing hours with diesel engine
8. Cost of typing material
9. Marketing charges
Sub-total
10. Interest on variable expenses for half the period of growth
11. Total variable expenses
12. Returns over variable expenses
13. Man-hours
14. Bullock labour (pair hours)
15. Machine(tractor hours)

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Enterprise budgets provide useful information regarding the resources requirements & the relative profitability of different enterprises. Thus these budgets, considered in the framework of farm resources, are the alternatives from among which the most profitable ones are to be selected. In this context, the enterprise budgets need to be prepared at different levels of technology, as (a)the existing level of technology; and (b) the improved or recommended level of technology.

A comparison of the enterprise budgets at the existing & improved levels of technology provides the scope or the potential of making farm improvements. The enterprise budgets lack in one important aspect that these do not consider the complementary & supplementary relationships amongst themselves which are quite common among farm enterprises at low level of production, but they simply assume to be competitive to one another right from the beginning. But these relationships are taken care of in complete planing & budgeting.

Chanditala 1 block

10.8.11

Today, during heavy shower, we have started for Mashat in chanditala 1 block. BDO madam was cooperative. From the BDO office, we got basic information about panchayets. Related to ST data, we have heard of shifting address of ST people. Some ST people shifted temporary residence from one panchayet to other panchayet. If the same people registered names in different panchayets then there will be possibility for inflated data. The data about male and female literacy are not available, though it is written that 66 percent people are literates.

Next we went to land reforms office located near by BDO office in order to get panchayet wise data about the no. of cultivators, land areas (shali, shuna and danga), areas for rice cultivation etc. We have found mouza wise data rather panchyet wise data here. And there is no possibility to cross tabulate the data so that we can get panchayet wise data. As data entry operators depend upon the specific software. And they do not have knowledge about pivot table for data classification. Therefore, only print out is possible. But without permission from higher authority, this printout is not possible. Therefore, we can not get panchayet wise data.

Next, we went to Krishnarampur panchayet. Panchayet pradhan was cooperative. He gave me some records of BPL family. Names of the family members are 'Phankabari' (empty house), 'Masjid' (Mosque). This data were enumerated in the year of 2007.

Chanditala is located at 22.68°N 88.26°E.

Chanditala has two community development blocks.

Rural area under Chanditala–I block consists of nine gram panchayats, viz. Ainya, Haripur, Masat, Bhagabatipur, Krishnarampur, Nababpur, Gangadharpur, Kumirmore and Shiyakhala.^[1] There is no urban area under this block.^[2] Chanditala police station serves this block.^[3] Headquarters of this block is in Moshat.^[4]

Ref:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanditala

http://web.cmc.net.in/wbcensus/DataTables/01/Table-3.htm

Population characteristics data of census 2001 have discrepancies. Following the census, total population is 5331 but total no of cultivators is 9502.

There are 4 classifications of agricultural people : Main, Marginal cultivators, Marginal agricultural labours.

Ref: http://wbagrimarketingboard.gov.in/population-ok/Population_hoogly.htm

Gram panchayats are local self-governments at the village or small town level in India. As of 2002 there were about 265,000 gram panchayats in India. The gram panchayat is the foundation of thePanchayat System. A gram panchayat can be set up in villages with minimum population of 300. Sometimes two or more villages are clubbed together to form group-gram panchayat when the population of the individual villages is less than 300.

Sarpanch / Chairperson

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The Sarpanch or Chairperson is the head of the Gram Panchayat. The elected members of the Gram Panchayat elect from among themselves a Sarpanch and a Deputy Sarpanch for a term of five years. In some places the panchayat president is directly elected by village people. The Sarpanch presides over the meetings of the Gram Panchayat and supervises its working. He implements the development schemes of the village. The Deputy Sarpanch, who has the power to make his own decisions, assists the Sarpanch in his work.

The Sarpanch has the responsibilities of

1. Looking after street lights, construction and repair work of the roads in the villages and also the village markets, fairs, festivals and celebrations.
2. Keeping a record of births, deaths and marriages in the village.
3. Looking after public health and hygiene by providing facilities for sanitationand drinking water.
4. Providing for education.

[edit]Sources of Income

The main source of income of the Gram Panchayat is the property tax levied on the buildings and the open spaces within the village. Other sources of income include professional tax, taxes on pilgrimage, animal trade, grant received from the State Government in proportion of land revenue and the grants received from the Zilla Parishad.

[edit]Principles of decentralisation

Dr S B Sen committee, a committee appointed by the Government of Kerala in 1996, had suggested the following principles, which was later adopted by the Second Administrative Reforms Commission, for local governance :-

• subsidiarity
• democratic decentralisation
• delineation of functions
• devolution of functions in real terms
• convergence
• citizen centricity

gram sabha is conducted two times in a year ...December and June

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Ref:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_panchayat

Infrastructure for Paddy cultivation

1. Soil testing:
   
   Soil testing is important for 4 reasons as:
   
   a) determining salinity in soil
   b)determining nutrients for plants
   c)determining acidity
   d)determining amount of fertilizers and nutrients for the growth of plants.
   
   
2. Seed cleaning
   
3. Organic fertilizer
   
4. Pesticides
   
5. Weedicides

Dhaniakhali

During survey, I have noted people living nearby urban areas are more diversified in occupation - agriculture,business and service. Many prefer non agricultural occupation. This encourages migration and finally develops inferiority people, self-identity crisis and forced poverty in the villages. On the other hand, people living far away from the urban areas are engaged in their traditional occupation. Since, they have their own control over land, they were less anxious. This observation can be evident in the Hooghly district.



Below is the table supporting above assumption.
http://wbagrimarketingboard.gov.in/population-ok/Population_hoogly.htm
There is a dearth of data about distribution of SC, ST population across panchayets. Inadequate and incongruent secondary data create problem in sampling area from which the primary data will be collected.

Dhaniakhali: The block has 18 gram panchayets. Here main cultivation is paddy and potato. On 17th May, 2011, I visited this block. Here the officers of simli farm, agricultural office and BDO office are very co-operative. I am in search of panchayet wise distribution of people by caste, economic condition, literacy level, and crop intensity. Panchayet wise original data collected from the Agriculture office and BDO office were converted into rank. Finally spearman rank order correlation was computed to determine extent of association among different demographic variables (Table 1)

Table 1. Spearman rank order correlation matrix of demographic variables


3rd June (2nd visit, Somaspur-2): At 8am, I started for Dhaniakhali block from my residence. On the Durgapur express highway, there is one under pass road towards Maheswarpur. As there is no sign board, we crossed almost 20 kms away from Maheswarpur. Maheswarpur road meets 17no road. that goes to Dhaniakhali halt station. Going straight, there is one famous school- Priyonath Boso school. My student was waiting there. Next, we moved to BDO office, Somaspur block and ADO office.

I have observed the followings:

Here some farmer families have forced inferiority feeling and identity crisis with their traditional occupation. This results migration from village to city or town for the sake of Rs. 1200-Rs.2000. Where as, farmers could earn the same from own field. During psychological counseling to villagers, psychologists should pay special attention to the above psychological conflicts.

Our primary education fails to provide insight about local needs or knowledge about local resources. Farmers have no idea about how many panchayets are in the block, how many mouzas are in the panchayet but they are aware of the districts of west bengal, or the states of India. They have no idea about local resources available in own panchayet as they are not educated in this fashion.

Today, I collected population data across mouzas of Somaspur-2 panchayet. Some santal families are living here and they communicate through their own language - alchiki. But they know Bengali. Here, I have heard Bengali is the second language. Mother tongue should not be second language as I assume.

PROFILE OF SOMASPUR-2

Somaspur-2 is one of the Village in Dhaniakhali in Hooghly District in West Bengal State . It is 30.93 km far from its District Main City Chinsurah . It is 56 km far from its State Main City Kolkata .

In the Somaspur-2, following census 2001 data, there are 13862 people. Of them, 8210 (59%) people are literates. 3038 people are in cultivation. Other data about infrastructures are in below:

1. Primary school:11
   
2. High school:1
   
3. Jr.High school:1
   
4. Angan bari kendra:24
   
5. Adarsha krishi khamar:1
   
6. Upaswasthya kendra:3
   
7. Tubewells:186
   
8. Land types: 3 cropped areas
   
9. Paddyseed sources: private mostly
   
10. Irrigation: canal, kananadi
    
11. Fertilizers: chemical mainly
    

langal and dhenki are not in use.

Reference:
http://dictionary.sensagent.com/dhaniakhali/en-en/
http://india.gov.in/sectors/agriculture/index.php

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introduction to paddy cultivation

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2. Paddy cultivation 20 years before


3. SRI cultivation
   

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Abstract of the interim report

This interim project is in continuation with earlier project report for the period 2009-10. This report examined six problems : (a) psychometric properties of questionnaire assessing self-efficacy of agricultural farmers; (b) block wise differences in self-efficacy levels; (c) association between self-efficacy and other measures; (d) socio-economic and agricultural conditions of the farmers; (e) awareness of the improved agricultural practices and (f) pattern of adoption of prescribed technology. One 50-items Likert type questionnaire was constructed to assess 5 domains of farmer’s self-efficacy. These domains are (a) Monitoring environmental uncertainty; (b) Enactive Mastery experience; (c) Self-regulation; (d) Vicarious experience and (e) controlling physiological and emotional states. Analysis of the psychometric properties of the questionnaire revealed significant item-item and item-total correlation coefficients suggesting good content validity of each sub scale. Cronbach’s alpha value for each sub scale varied from 0.64 to 0.78 suggesting high internal consistency among the item responses. Data were collected from 286 farmers of 8 blocks of 6 districts in West Bengal. One way Analysis of variance revealed significant mean differences across the blocks on all the 5 measures of self-efficacy. Farmers who used organic fertilizers were more self-efficacious than their counterparts. Results revealed significant positive correlation between self-efficacy and 5 measures as (a) Self-esteem clusters of GHQ-12; (b) Educational level; (c) Housing conditions; (d) Size of Farming Land area and (e) Multiple Crop production. Most of the farmers reported that they possessed less than 2 bighas of land; their monthly expenditure was higher than the monthly income; they maintained conservation following traditional practices of cultivation. They cultivated non-fine quality of rice and did not follow cultivation of hybrid quality of rice. They collected water from shallow tubewells and deep tubewells for irrigation. Though they applied pesticides over the land, they still used organic and inorganic fertilizers. Results based on interview schedule revealed differential patterns of technology adoptions among the farmers.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Professor Bimal Kumar Roy, The Director, ISI, Kolkata for Administrative support.	Professor Shankar Pal, Former Director, ISI. Kolkata for Administrative support.
Professor Madhura Swaminathan Professor -in-Charge, Social Science Division for Administrative support.	Professor Avirup Sarkar Ex-Professor-in-charge, Social Science Division ISI, Kolkata for Administrative support.
Dr. Anjali Ghosh, Head, Psychology Research Unit, ISI. Kolkata for Administrative support.	Dr. Pabitra Banik, Agricultural and Ecological Research Unit, Kolkata for academic support
Dr. Bhola Nath Ghosh, Sociology Research Unit, ISI, Kolkata for academic support.	Dr. Shubhendu Chatterjee, Ex-Director, Department of Agriculture, Govt. of West Bengal for administrative support.
Ms. Deblina Chatterjee, Belgharia, Kolkata for collection and analysis of data as project assistant(2009-10).	Ms. Rupa Roy, Dumdum, Kolkata for collection and analysis of data as project assistant(2010-11).
Dr. Sumit Ghosh, Addl. Director of Agriculture Agri Evaluation office, 17, S.P. Mukherjee Road, Kolkata for academic support.	Dr. Madhab Chandra Dhara, Agronomist, Rice Research Station, Chinsurah, Hooghly,West Bengal for academic support.
Prof. Sunil Kumar Maity, Bidhan Chundra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Kalyani, Nadia for academic support.	Dr. F.H. Rahaman, Sr. Scientist (Prog. Co-ordinator), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Budbud, Burdwan for organizing training programs to collect data from Burdwan.
Professor Amiya Saha, Bidhan Chundra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Kalyani, Nadia for organizing training programs to collect data from Nadia.	Mr. Aditya Bhattacharya, Education Officer, CBWE, Kolkata for organizing training programs to collect data from Hooghly.
Mr. Sabyasachi Sarkar, Education Officer, Central Board for Workers Education, Kolkata for organizing training programs to collect data from Midnapore.	Mr. Nilangshu Gain, Swanirbhar Baduria for organizing training programs to collect data from North 24 paraganas.
Mr. Prabir Chatterjee, Transport unit, ISI, Kolkata, for organizing training programs to collect data from Midnapore.	The fellow farmer participants who spent their valuable time during collection of data.

ORGANIC FARMING

History of organic farming:

The organic farming concept developed in the period prior to 1940 and was pioneered by Sir Albert Howard (1873–1947). Howard, born and educated in England, directed agricultural research centers in India (1905–1931) before permanently returning to England. His years of agricultural research experiences and observations gradually evolved into a philosophy and concept of organic farming that he espoused in several books. Howard's thinking on soil fertility and the need to effectively recycle waste materials, including sewage sludge, onto farmland was reinforced by F.H. King's book, Farmers of Forty Centuries. Howard developed a system of composting that became widely adopted. Howard's concept of soil fertility centered on building soil humus with an emphasis on how soil life was connected to the health of crops, livestock, and mankind. Howard argued that crop and animal health was a birthright and that the correct method of dealing with a pathogen was not to destroy the pathogen but to see what could be learned from it or to ‘make use of it for tuning up agricultural practice’. The system of agriculture advocated by Howard was coined ‘organic’ by Walter Northbourne to refer to a system ‘having a complex but necessary interrelationship of parts, similar to that in living things’. Lady Eve Balfour compared organic and non-organic farming and helped to popularize organic farming with the publication of The Living Soil. Jerome Rodale, a publisher and an early convert to organic farming, was instrumental in the diffusion and popularization of organic concepts in the US. Both Howard and Rodale saw organic and non-organic agriculture as a conflict between two different visions of what agriculture should become as they engaged in a war of words with the agricultural establishment. A productive dialogue failed to occur between the organic community and traditional agricultural scientists for several decades. Organic agriculture gained significant recognition and attention in 1980, marked by the USDA publication Report and Recommendations on Organic Farming. The passage of the Federal Organic Foods Production Act in 1990 began the era of accommodation for organic farming in the USA, followed by another milestone with official labeling as USDA Certified Organic in 2002. Organic agriculture will likely continue to evolve in response to ongoing social, environmental, and philosophical concerns of the organic movement.

Ref: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=693124

Organic farming procedure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_farming

System of Rice Intensification:
http://www.slideshare.net/ifad/the-system-of-rice-intensification-sri

SES-indicators of rural india

Such indicator may be obtained from urban people but one must be cautious to make similar assumption for rural people as 70% people of India are still involved in agriculture.

My current study about socio-economic status in rural areas has shown following issues:

1. Most of the rural people can not report their income and expenditure as they are not under salary scheme and do not make any family or agricultural budget.

2. Their income and expenditure in agriculture are highly correlated. The income is not correlated with their non agricultural expenses. This suggests that they are not able to improve their quality of life much like urban people. This is a serious issue for the researchers who are interested to relate socio economic status to the health and educational condition or any psychological phenomena.

3. Researcher can follow different parameters used by NSSO to assess socio-economic status and to test their validity. My recent book on questionnaire development presents socio-economic data analysis of rural people. This book will give you guideline to classify the people in terms of SES score.

With best wishes,

D. Dutta Roy, ISI., Kolkata