Impact of Technological Interventions on the Yield and Income of Tribal Farm Women’s in Arunachal Pradesh under Eastern Himalayan Region

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the extent of Impact, adoption of improved technologies, economics and yield gap analysis in the empowerment of tribal farm women’s cluster having 50 nos. of respondents selected among a pool of 105 farm families in the Chug village of West Kameng District Arunachal Pradesh. Various technological interventions were made by the K.V.K for the tribal farm women’s empowerment. In this reference the present study was undertaken to have an understanding of the nature and extent of the empowerment of rural women’sthrough involvement in income generational activities under the aegis of Doubling Farmers Income Programme started by Govt. of India. The study revealed that the highest income generating activity was paddy cum Fish farming and nursery raising of temperate fruit crops with >100% increase while the lowest income generating activity was SRI of local rice with 25% increase only. The extension gap recorded was highest 2000Kg/ha in the introduction of HYV of ginger and lowest 30 eggs/year in the introduction of improved poultry breed having same trend in (TG) technology gap i.e. 12000kg and 60 egg/year respectively. The technology index TI was highest 60 in ginger production and 16.66 in SRI of local paddy.