Factors associated with economic motivation of legume growers in desert area of Rajasthan

The study was conducted during Kharif 2010 in arid region of Rajasthan involving 108 legume growers to find out the association of socioeconomic attributes with economic motivation of legume growers. The independent variables, such as age, education, landholding, farmpower, social participation socioeconomic status and economic motivation were measured by the standard scale developed for this purpose. The study revealed that about half of respondents were middle aged with large landholding and educated up to middle standard. Majority of them belonged to medium (66.66%) and high (17.59%) socioeconomic status. It was observed that socioeconomic attributes such as age, land holding, farm power and socioeconomic status significantly associated with economic motivation whereas education and social participation were not associated with it. The information sources mostly utilized by farmers were the village level worker/agriculture supervisor/krishakmitra followed by radio, neighbours, input dealers and field demonstrations.