A Study on Aspiration of Farm Youth towards Agriculture in Rayagada District of Odisha
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Agriculture, Aspiration, Cosmopoliteness, Farm youth.Abstract
The study examined the aspiration of farm youth towards agriculture in Rayagada district of Odisha during 2023–2024 and identified the variables influencing their involvement in farming. The main objective was to estimate the level of aspiration of farm youth and to analyze the personal, economic, and psychological factors affecting it. In this regard, an ex-post facto type of research design was used in which a sample of 150 farm youths was randomly drawn from ten villages located in two blocks. Primary data were collected through personal interviews using a structured schedule. Correlation analysis found that age and farming experience among personal factors, family income among economic factors, and innovative proneness, risk orientation, farming commitment, and economic motivation among psychological factors were positively and significantly associated with aspiration. Multiple regression analysis revealed that education, innovative proneness, farming commitment and farming experience had significantly contributed towards aspiration. Path analysis indicated that age, farming experience, landholding, family size, and innovative proneness exerted the highest direct effects on aspiration, while economic motivation, extension contact, mass media use, and cosmopoliteness contributed mainly through indirect effects. The residual effect showed that 37.9% of variation in aspiration was explained by the selected variables.
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