An assessment of farm efficiency of adopted and non-adopted kvk farms of sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh

In this study, an attempt was made to measure the farm proitability of adopted and non- adopted KVK farms of Sant Kabir Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. A multistage stratiied purposive cum random sampling technique was applied for the selection of district, block, villages and respondents. The primary data were collected through survey on schedule with the help of personal interviews. A list of all the villages falling under selected Pauli and Nath Nagar block were prepared and ive villages were randomly selected. The farmers were stratiied into two strata (Adopted & Non-adopted). Ultimately, 100 respondents were selected for conducting the detailed study. The data pertained to the agricultural year 2022-23. Both tabular and functional techniques were used for the analysis of data. Present study based on randomly selected 100 respondents of 50 adopted and 50 non- adopted categories with the average size of land holding as 1.35 and 1.15 hectare, respectively. The results pertaining to farm eficiencies that estimated mean of technical, economic, scale and allocative eficiency of KVK adopted respondents was more as compared to non-adopted respondents in kharif as well as in Rabi season. Again, it was found that there is a positive impact of KVK on adopted respondents over non-adopted respondents. The mean difference between adopted and non-adopted respondents for technical eficiency and economic eficiency was found to be significant but allocative eficiency was found to be non-significant in kharif as well as Rabi season