20Jul 2017

A DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS OF STRENGTHS WEAKNESS OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF FARMER INTEREST GROUP OF GUAVA IN DINDUGUL DISTRICT.

  • Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore.
  • Professor (Agricultural Extension), Thangapazham Agricultural College, Thirunelveli.
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A Farmer Interest Group (FIG) is a self-managed, independent group of farmers with a shared goal and interest, their activities shall be limited only by the needs and motivation of group members? itself. FIGs have the power to create a socio ? economic resolution in the rural areas of our country by producing tangible social assets. Due to its? long implementation period and gaining importance of group approaches, now it is opt time to perform a investigative study on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges of FIG. This study was conducted in Dindigul district. Five villages namely Old ayakudi, Vaeppanvalasu, Eramanayackanpatty, TKN pudhur and Rookvarpatty were selected deliberately due to the well-functioning of FIGs in and around. A total of one hundred respondents were selected at the rate of ten members from each group using simple random sampling technique. The open-ended empathical questions on their own perception on FIG were inquired and the responses were recorded and classified on it?s form under the labels of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges (SWOC) for the existing FIG. The major strength, weakness, opportunity and challenge are found as good rapport building among members of FIG (55%), lack of record maintenance and skill regarding organizing meetings (52%), vast scope of implementation of value addition units like pulp industry and guava powder plants (48%) and organizing producers at the operational time of FIG activities (33%) and raising seed money among FIG members (25%) respectively.


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[M. R. Naveen kumar and T. Rathakrishnan. (2017); A DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS OF STRENGTHS WEAKNESS OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF FARMER INTEREST GROUP OF GUAVA IN DINDUGUL DISTRICT. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jul). 849-851] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


M. R. Naveen kumar
Ph.D., Research scholar, Tamil Nadu Agricultural college and Research Institute

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4789      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4789