Table 9: Number of Farmer Households Accessing Other Progressive Farmers for Acquiring Different Aspect of Cultivation

 

 

 

Of which:

 

 

 

State

% of hhs accessing Other Prog. Farmer

% of  hhs obtaining info. on cultivation

Improved Seed

Fertiliser Application

Plant Protection

Others

Northern Region

7.4

91.5

 

 

 

 

Haryana

16.9

96.0

59.5

26.1

6.1

8.3

Himachal Pradesh

12.9

96.0

46.9

14.5

7.0

31.6

Jammu and Kashmir

0.7

90.6

0.0

55.2

44.8

0.0

Punjab

4.3

95.8

68.9

5.8

18.2

7.1

Rajasthan

5.3

83.2

63.0

19.2

4.6

13.2

N-Eastern Region

14.0

90.9

 

 

 

 

Arunachal Pradesh

8.4

51.5

36.2

0.0

0.0

63.8

Assam

15.9

94.6

35.7

24.1

18.3

21.9

Manipur

13.0

84.6

78.3

9.5

7.7

4.5

Meghalaya

19.2

72.3

2.0

21.9

22.1

54.0

Mizoram

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

100.0

Nagaland

1.0

100.0

41.5

22.6

35.8

0.1

Tripura

0.5

100.0

0.0

0.0

100.0

0.0

Eastern Region

14.0

97.1

 

 

 

 

Bihar

10.0

95.8

18.8

49.8

11.6

19.8

Jharkhand

8.7

93.2

27.2

55.2

4.6

13.0

Orissa

7.0

100.0

23.0

20.5

4.5

52.0

Sikkim

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

100.0

West Bengal

24.7

97.7

33.5

33.4

23.2

9.9

Central Region

17.5

94.7

 

 

 

 

Chattisgarh

3.3

100.0

35.3

35.4

28.1

1.2

Madhya Pradesh

19.1

98.6

50.0

29.4

13.3

7.3

Uttranchal

22.4

94.1

86.7

6.5

3.2

3.6

Uttar Pradesh

18.9

93.1

52.5

28.2

9.3

10.0

Western Region

21.8

94.9

 

 

 

 

Gujarat

30.0

94.4

34.7

32.2

22.0

11.1

Maharashtra

17.0

95.5

50.8

24.4

8.9

15.9

Southern Region

22.3

91.4

 

 

 

 

Andhra Pradesh

34.1

94.8

26.5

38.9

21.9

12.7

Karnataka

11.4

97.2

30.0

34.5

13.1

22.4

Kerala

13.0

80.6

28.4

13.4

27.2

31.0

Tamil Nadu

21.0

83.5

18.8

37.1

20.9

23.2

Uts

26.9

80.7

26.9

25.1

18.4

29.6

All-India

16.7

94.1

39.6

31.3

15.1

14.0

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