Table 7: Number of Farmer Households Accessing Radio for Acquiring Different Aspect of Cultivation

 

 

 

of which:

State

Per cent of hhs accessing Radio

Per cent of hhs receiving infornation on Cultivtion

Improved Seeds

Fertiliser Application

Plant Protection

Others

Northern Region

8.6

91.9

 

 

 

 

Haryana

11.2

94.9

59.5

13.2

12.5

14.9

Himachal Pradesh

14.0

99.1

33.7

29.9

23.8

12.6

Jammuand Kashmir

36.3

91.7

25.9

40.6

29.5

4.0

Punjab

5.4

77.9

33.8

52.2

4.0

10.0

Rajasthan

2.8

91.5

47.8

22.3

11.7

18.2

North-Eastern Region

27.0

93.7

 

 

 

 

Arunachal Pradesh

16.0

69.9

23.3

28.6

9.1

39.0

Assam

28.9

94.7

39.1

42.1

8.0

10.8

Manipur

41.4

98.2

35.3

32.2

20.0

12.5

Meghalaya

19.6

79.7

23.6

13.3

47.8

15.3

Mizoram

17.1

92.5

55.9

15.2

8.2

20.7

Nagaland

34.3

92.4

58.7

27.3

11.3

2.7

Tripura

7.5

100.0

55.5

29.8

13.5

1.2

Eastern Region

15.9

95.4

 

 

 

 

Bihar

17.3

94.7

46.4

28.7

10.2

14.7

Jharkhand

15.4

95.1

45.0

29.1

12.6

13.3

Orissa

6.0

95.5

36.3

27.3

25.9

10.5

Sikkim

9.6

100.0

6.0

28.3

27.0

38.7

West Bengal

20.8

96.1

38.3

34.0

18.4

9.3

Central Region

11.9

94.1

 

 

 

 

Chattisgarh

3.5

100.0

52.8

30.2

10.5

6.5

Madhya Pradesh

8.4

95.7

54.4

27.9

11.5

6.2

Uttranchal

2.3

100.0

40.5

13.9

27.4

18.2

Uttar Pradesh

15.0

93.5

60.1

21.9

14.2

3.8

Western Region

10.3

96.8

 

 

 

 

Gujarat

6.2

97.6

42.1

34.0

5.4

18.5

Maharashtra

12.6

96.6

42.6

26.4

15.0

16.0

Southern Region

13.0

93.4

 

 

 

 

Andhra Pradesh

3.9

98.4

21.8

34.4

36.1

7.7

Karnataka

14.2

96.2

45.9

28.1

14.2

11.8

Kerala

30.6

89.6

26.0

33.8

21.3

18.9

Tamil Nadu

16.3

92.9

32.0

32.9

23.8

11.3

UTs

7.4

96.3

3.1

2.3

70.5

24.1

All-India

13.0

94.4

44.5

29.3

15.8

10.4

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