Table 2: Number of Farmer Households Accessing Any Source

State

No.of farmer hhs (00)

No.of hhs accessing information (00)

Other Progressive farmers

Input Dealers

Radio

TV

News Paper

Extension Worker

Northern Region

109460

28220

(25.8)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haryana

19445

7198

(37.0)

16.9

9.5

11.2

9.0

8.0

2.5

Himachal Pradesh

9061

3786

(41.8)

12.9

4.0

14.0

17.1

4.8

2.1

Jammu and Kashmir

9432

4530

(48.0)

0.7

1.3

36.3

30.0

1.9

3.0

Punjab

18442

4920

(26.7)

4.3

3.6

5.4

16.5

8.1

1.4

Rajasthan

53080

7786

(14.7)

5.3

5.6

2.8

2.1

2.1

1.4

N-E Region

34874

15058

(43.2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arunachal

1227

280

(22.8)

8.4

6.6

16.0

9.6

6.7

10.1

Assam

25040

11553

(46.1)

15.9

8.0

28.9

9.3

10.2

5.9

Manipur

2146

1193

(55.6)

13.1

10.6

41.4

5.3

10.4

1.1

Meghalaya

2543

1180

(46.4)

19.2

4.7

19.6

16.8

10.9

3.9

Mizoram

780

156

(20.0)

0.0

0.0

17.1

1.3

7.2

1.1

Nagaland

805

312

(38.8)

0.9

0.0

34.2

26.2

8.4

0.0

Tripura

2333

384

(16.5)

0.5

0.0

7.5

4.0

3.4

1.7

Eastern Region

211140

84244

(39.9)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bihar

70804

22924

(32.4)

10.0

12.4

17.3

3.4

5.7

0.4

Jharkhand

28238

8023

(28.4)

8.7

3.1

15.4

2.3

4.7

0.0

Orissa

42341

10834

(25.6)

7.0

8.2

6.0

6.1

3.9

6.3

Sikkim

531

288

(54.2)

0.0

0.3

9.6

5.5

0.7

42.7

West Bengal

69226

42175

(60.9)

24.7

35.6

20.8

6.6

5.6

4.1

Central Region

271341

93444

(34.4)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chattisgarh

27598

6902

(25.0)

3.3

0.2

3.5

4.2

1.6

15.5

Madhya Pradesh

63206

26184

(41.4)

19.1

10.2

8.4

6.6

3.4

9.0

Uttranchal

8962

2697

(30.1)

22.4

8.8

2.3

4.5

0.2

1.2

Uttar Pradesh

171575

57661

(33.6)

18.9

8.3

15.0

6.5

4.0

1.1

Western Region

103662

51323

(49.5)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gujarat

37845

20886

(55.2)

30.0

24.3

6.2

10.4

6.8

21.9

Maharashtra

65817

30437

(46.2)

17.0

17.1

12.6

20.9

14.6

7.6

Southern Region

162310

88270

(54.4)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andhra Pradesh

60339

37831

(62.7)

34.1

30.1

3.9

11.9

6.4

9.0

Karnataka

40413

17893

(44.3)

11.4

15.5

14.2

11.9

9.8

11.5

Kerala

21946

12730

(58.0)

13.0

2.8

30.6

22.6

37.8

3.8

Tamil Nadu

38880

19444

(50.0)

21.0

9.4

16.3

19.6

14.3

13.3

Uts

732

372

(50.8)

26.9

8.6

7.4

12.6

9.5

7.6

All-India

893504

360793

(40.4)

16.7

13.1

13.0

9.3

7.0

5.7

Note Figures in brackets are percentages to total number of farmer households

Source: NSSO(2005), Access to Modern Technology for Farming, 59th Round, Report No 499