PERCEPTION OF FARMERS AND RESEARCHERS ABOUT CRISIS AND ITS MANAGEMENT

The root cause of the crisis in agriculture is that agriculture is becoming an economically enviable activity when compared to other enterprises. Means, profitability of agriculture is low or nil therefore, the income derived from these activities are not sufficient to meet the expenditure of the cultivators. So, it can be said that the agriculture is no more a profitable economic activity as the cultivators are not able to draw adequate amount of income to meet their expenditures. The men made as well as environmental factors play pivotal role on the production of crop. It is therefore, expected that farmers and researchers should have perfect knowledge and active adoption of advisable crisis management practices in crop cultivation. Adoption of farmers may have some association with their certain personal, socio economic and psychological characteristics. If this association is ascertained, it may be possible to draw out certain inferences about crisis and its management in crops by respondents. Keeping these facts in mind, it was considered worthwhile to carried out investigation to study “Perception of farmers and researchers of South Gujarat about Crisis and its management'.