Satisfaction of Farmers Regarding Subsidies Provided Under National Food Security Mission

Kakkar, Navdeep; Prabhjot Kaur,; Dhaliwal, R.K.

Satisfaction of Farmers Regarding Subsidies Provided Under National Food Security Mission

2014

Kakkar, Navdeep | Prabhjot Kaur, | Dhaliwal, R.K.

Government of India had launched Centrally Sponsored Scheme, ‘National Food Security Mission’ (NFSM) in August 2007 with the objective to increase production and productivity of wheat, rice and pulses on a sustainable basis so as to ensure food security of the country. The present study was conducted to know the level of satisfaction of farmers regarding the subsidies provided under NFSM. Ten farmers from all the 12 blocks of Ludhiana district of Punjab state (total 120 farmers) who had availed the subsidies, were taken as respondents for the study. The results revealed that the majority of the respondents were very much satisfied with the quality of inputs and amount of subsidy provided under the scheme, whereas, about one fifth respondents were dissatisfied with the quantity of inputs and timeliness of subsidy provided. Majority of the respondents had medium to high level of satisfaction with the subsidies provided under the scheme.

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