Follow
International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences (IJCMAS)
IJCMAS is now DOI (CrossRef) registered Research Journal. The DOIs are assigned to all published IJCMAS Articles.
Index Copernicus ICI Journals Master List 2022 - IJCMAS--ICV 2022: 95.28 For more details click here
National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) : NAAS Score: *5.38 (2020) [Effective from January 1, 2020] For more details click here

Login as a Reviewer


See Guidelines to Authors
Current Issues
Download Publication Certificate

Original Research Articles                      Volume : 7, Issue:7, July, 2018

PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706
Issues : 12 per year
Publisher : Excellent Publishers
Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com /
submit@ijcmas.com
Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash
Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39
NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38

Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci.2018.7(7): 2635-2640
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2018.707.309


Profile Characteristics of Maize Farmers in Mahmud-i-Raqi District of Kapisa a Province of Afghanistan
Tamana Kohisatani*, S.V. Prasad, P.V. Satya Gopal and G. Prabhakara Reddy
Department of Agricultural Extension, S.V Agricultural College, Tirupati-517502, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author
Abstract:

The Present investigation was carried out to study the profile characteristics of maize farmers in Mahmud-i-raqi district of Kapisa one of major maize production province in Afghanistan .Ex-post facto research design was followed for the study and a sample of 120respondents were drawn. The results of the study revealed that most of the respondents were young aged (39.17%), illiterate middle to school educated (30.00%),had medium experience in maize cultivation (63.33%),small farm size (58.33%), had medium mess media exposure (63.33%), medium extension contact (69.17%), low social participation (59.17%), medium scientific orientation (64.17%), medium economic orientation (65.00%), medium innovativeness (63.33%), medium achievement motivation (66.67%) and medium deferred gratification (77.50%).


Keywords: Profile characteristics, Maize farmers, Extension contact

Download this article as Download

How to cite this article:

Tamana Kohisatani, S.V. Prasad, P.V. Satya Gopal and Prabhakara Reddy, G. 2018. Profile Characteristics of Maize Farmers in Mahmud-i-Raqi District of Kapisa a Province of Afghanistan.Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 7(7): 2635-2640. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2018.707.309
Copyright: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

Citations