Factors Responsible For Discriminating Between High and Low Adopter Categories of Shrimp Farmers
Factors Responsible For Discriminating Between High and Low Adopter Categories of Shrimp Farmers
Date
2007
Authors
P.S, Swathi Lekshmi
N, Balasubramani
Vimala, Deboral
K, Chandrakandan
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Publisher
Society of Fisheries Technologists (India)Cochin
Abstract
Shrimp farming on a commercial scale has come to be the main stay, of the coastal economy of the
country. Scientific Shrimp farming is characterised by the adoption of improved technologies for
getting a better yield both in terms of quantity and quality. Adoption of improved technologies is
dependent upon a host of factors such as the perceived attributes of the technology, the cost of the
technologies and the policy environment in which the technologies are adopted. Among these
factors, certain factors help to discriminate between high and low adoption categories. These are
vital from the point of view of technology development and refinement. In this study 60 shrimp
farmers of Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh were studied for identifying the factors responsible
for discriminating the high and low adoption categories of shrimp farmers. The findings revealed
that, the variables such as attributes of shrimp culture technologies such as efficiency and feasibility
of technologies had substantial importance in the classification of shrimp farmers into high adopter
category and low adopter category. Further, it was observed that of the 60 shrimp farmers studied,
31 belonged to high adopter category and 29 belonged to the low adopter category.
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Keywords
Perception, Attributes, Shrimp Farmers, Adopter Categories
Citation
Fishery Techn 44(1):113-116