Measurement the attitude and priority of farmers about privatization of extension in district of Meerut of western Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

At present we are facing the challenges of implication of WTO on Indian agriculture. Thus the extension would focus the quality cost of production, market led extension and cyber application in extension. These challenges require the change in present extension services. Private extension's filling up the gap which is created by the government extension agencies. This transition from resource based to technology based system agriculture however places greater responsibility upon the agriculture extension sector. Keeping in view the situation this study is carried out in district Meerut Four blocks were also chosen from the twelve blocks of district Meerut. Accordingly a total of eight villages were selected for the study. Thus a sample size comprised to two hundred farmers respondents. The inference that could be drawn from the analysis is that the respondents have realized the advantages of privatization in case of  cultivation practices of medicinal plants and cultivation practices of fruits and vegetable crops. Besides farmers prefer those agencies that responsibility to supervise agriculture operations and ensure better income i.e. marketing to farmers. It is evident the study area that seed production is confirmed to commercial and horticulture crops and mainly managed by private agencies. It is also concluded from the analysis of the study that mostly fanner are willing to pay extension services rendered. It is true that farmers will be ready for cost sharing only when the benefits and w and weight their cost (Samanta,1977).