Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2015
AdoptionBehaviour of Anthurium Flower Cultivators in Darjeeling District of West Bengal
Deepa Roy, Dr. A. K. Bandyopadhyay, Balkho R Marak
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Keeping in view the vast potential and the importance of anthurium cultivation to the states revenue in the oader sense and the impact of the practice on improving the social life of the farmersin the hill region of Darjeeling district, the study was undertaken to measure the adoption behaviour of the farmer as dependent variable with seventeen causal independent variables.Nine villages from two blocks of Kalimpong were selected purposively and respondents were selected randomly. From correlation analysis it was observed that the variables viz, age, education, knowledge level, area under anthurium cultivation, annual income, market orientation, production orientation, risk orientation, economic motivation, achievement motivation, innovation proneness, and extension communication had gone positively and significantly correlated with the adoption behaviour of anthurium growers. The R2 value being 0.7674, it is to infer that the 17 predictors put together have explained 76.74% variation embedded with the predicted variable
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Deepa Roy, Dr. A. K. Bandyopadhyay, Balkho R Marak AdoptionBehaviour of Anthurium Flower Cultivators
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