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N. SRIHARI NARAYANA, V. SAILAJA, P.V. SATYAGOPAL AND S.V. PRASAD
Department of Extension Education, S.V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati-517 502, Chittoor Dt., A.P.
This paper describes the suggestions given by the rice crop cultivating farmers to overcome the constraints faced by them in SPSR Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. The data was collected from a sample of 120 rice farmers by following simple random sampling method. The study revealed that among the various suggestions given by the farmers, fetching of better market price/provision of Minimum Support Price (MSP) by the government (91.67%) was ranked first followed by prioritization of agricultural activities in NREGP programme (90.83%), development of pest and disease resistant varieties (89.17%), develop-ment of suitable implements and equipment (88.33%), provision of warehousing facilities at Panchayat level (85.00%), avail-ability of combine harvesters at lower rents (79.17%), provision of loans by government agencies at lower interest rates (77.50%), provision of processing, trading and export facilities (70.00%), conducting regular training programmes to the farmers (66.67%), increasing subsidies for rice farming (65.83%), encouraging seed village programme (65.00%), facilitating direct marketing in rice (54.17%), timely supply of high yielding variety (HYV) seed/good quality seed by Department of Agriculture (48.33%), increasing the efficiency of the extension staff (40.00%), adopting group farming approach in rice farming (39.17%), implemen-tation of green manure schemes (34.17%), implementation of crop insurance (31.67%) and recruitment of sufficient extension staff (20.83%).
Rice farmers; suggestions and constraints.