Questionnaire Sample:
ADOPTION OF RECOMMENDED
PRACTICES OF RICE CULTIVATION BY THE FARMERS IN THE HILL DISTRICT
This questionnaire
is prepared to complete a research for completion of master level in
agriculture science. The information receiving from this questionnaire is only
used to prepare thesis not for other purposes.
Interview schedule
Respondent No............
District...........................
Date of Interview................
V.D.C...........
1. Socio- economic information
1. Name
of the respondent………………
2. Sex: c male c female
3. Age:
…………….years
4. Ethnicity: c Brahmin c Chhetri c Janajati c Dalit
c Others
5. Religionv :
c
Hindu cBuddhist cMuslim cOther
6. Family
type : c
Nuclear c Joint
c
Extended
7. Educational
Status: c
Illeterate c Litterate c
less than SLC c SLC c I.A c
B.A c M.A
8. How many members are there in your
family? Male........ Female.......... Total............
9. What
is your main occupation?c Agriculture c Business c Service c Others
10. What are
your major sources of income?
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Sources of Income
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Annual Amount (Rs)
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Remarks
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1. Agriculture
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2.Service
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3. Business
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4.Livestock farming
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6. Poultry Farming
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7. Foreign Job
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8. Others
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11. How much
land do you have?
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Type of land (ha)
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Irrigated
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Partialy irrigated
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Non irrigated
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Total (ha)
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Field
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Bari Land
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Total (ha)
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12. Please,
mention the ownership of above mentioned land.
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Type of land
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Rentented in
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Rented out
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Own cultivated
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Total (ha)
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Field
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Bari Land
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Total (ha)
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13. Rice cultivated area
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Summer rice
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Rainy/ main season rice
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Upland rice
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Total (ha)
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Irrigated
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Partially irrigated
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Rain fed
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Total (ha)
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14. Are you a member of farmer group or any social organization?
a. Yes b.
No.
15. If yes, in which post you are?
16. Have you participated in the training of rice
cultivation? a. Yes b. No
17. If yes, Please give the details of the training.
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Type of training
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Duration
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Organization
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18. How much you are satisfied with the training on rice
cultivation?
c Highly Satisfied c Satisfied cUnknown c Unsatisfied
c
highly unsatisfied
2. Improved technologies adopted by the farmers for the
rice cultivation
A. Improved varieties
1. How long have you been cultivating rice?
2. Area covered by
improved and local varieties
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Improved Varieties
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Local Varieties
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Name
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Area(ha)/preference
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Name
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Area (ha)/ Preference
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Total
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3. Among the cultivated varieties of rice which
one of them do you prefer most?
1……………………….2……………………..3.................................
4. Reason for variety preference (Specify rank)
a. Long
straw(More straw)
b. Higher
yield
c. Normal
yield and more straw
d. Low
yield and more straw
e. Fine
grain
f. More
milling percentage
g. Disease
resistance
h. Insect-pest
resistance
6. Which type of cropping pattern do you follow?
crice-wheat-maize
crice-vegetable-maize
crice-
oil seeds -vegetables c others
B. Seedlings preparation and transplanting
7. In which month do you prepare seed bed for
rice?.
8. How much
rice seed you use to cultivate rice in one ropani land?
a. b. c d
9. Do you treat seed before sowing in the bed?
a. Yes b. No
10. If yes, which chemical do you use for the
treatment and in which amount?
a. Chemical name...................................
b. Dose...............................
11. What method do you use to prepare seedlings?
a. c Dry bed b. c
Wet bed c. c Dapog method d. c
Other Method
12. Which age seedlings you transplant in the field?
c 15-21
days c 21-28 days c 28-35 days c More than 35days
13. How many seedlings you transplant per hill?
c Single c 2-3 Seedlings c 4-5 seedlings c 5-8 Seedlings
14. How do you
transplant rice seedlings?
c In line c
In traditional method (zigzag method)
C. Manures and Fertilizers
15. Which
fertilizer do you use in the rice field?
c FYM c Compost c
Oilseed cake c Green manure cChemical fertilizer cOthers
16. How much amount of fertilizer do you use?
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Name of Fertilizer
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Amount/ropani
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At the time of land preparation
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At the time of transplanting
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After weeding
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1
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FYM
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Urea
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3
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DAP
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4
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Potash
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5
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Oil seed cake
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6.
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Green manure
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7.
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others
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17. How do you use chemical fertilizer in the rice field?
c Broadcasting c Side placement c foliar application
18 .Are you doing top
dressing of nitrogenous fertilizer?
a.
Yes b. No
15. If yes, how many days after transplanting?
a……………………….
b……………………….
16. Do you use
micronutrients in the rice field? a. yes b. No
17. If yes, which
micronutrient do you use and in which amount?
Micro
nutrient.. Amount
D. Irrigation
18. Do you have irrigation
facility? a. Yes b. No
19. If yes, what type of
irrigation source do you have?
a. c Canal b. c Tube
well/Boring c c
20. Which method do you
use for irrigation?
a. b. c. d.
21. How do you use
irrigation water?
a. Regular
supply from the day after transplanting
to 15 days before harvesting
b. Often dried the rice field and
again irrigate the field
F. Weed Management
22. How do you perform
wedding?
c manually c
mechanically c Chemically c Others
23. If you use chemical
for weeding, which herbicide generally do you use?
Name............................. Dose ...................................
G. Disese,Insect
pest control
24. How much diseases attacked in your rice field?
a. Not in
injury level
b. Often
damage the crop
c.
Severely damage the crop
25. If yes, which diseases attacked in the rice field?
a. Blast
b. Blight c. Khaira d. Smut e. Viral f. Others
26. How do you control
such type of disease?
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Diseases
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Severity
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Control Measures(With dose)
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1
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Blast
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2
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Blight
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3
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Khaira
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4
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Smut
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5
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Viral
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6
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Others
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7
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27. How much insect-
pests attacked in your rice field?
a. Not in
injury level
b. Often
damage the crop
c. Severely
damage the crop
28. If yes,
which insects-pests attacked in your rice field?
a. Borer b. Grass hopper c. Rice Gundhi Bug d. Rice hispa e. Leaf roller f. Others
29. How do you control these insect pests?
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S.N
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Name of the insects
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Severity
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Control measures
( with dose)
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Borer
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2
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Grasshopper
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3
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Rice gundi bug
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4
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Rice hispa
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5
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Leaf roller
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6
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Others
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30. Do you use insecticides to control insects in the rice
field?
a. Yes
b. No.
31. If yes, which
pesticide do you use?
Name................................. Dose.................................
32. Do you use organic pesticides for the control of
insect pests in rice? If yes, which pesticide do you use?
32. Do you adopt biological control method while controlling
insect-pests?
H. Harvesting, Post harvest and marketing
When do you
harvest rice?
a. After fully
ripen the rice
b. After 75%
ripen the rice
c . After
80% ripen the rice
d. After 90
% ripen the rice
33. How do you harvest rice?
a. Manually
b. Mechanically
Do you perfrorm following activities before storting rice?
34. How much rice do you produce in one ropani?
35. How do you store rice?
a. Locally made bins b. seed bins c. go downs d. sacks
36. Do you maintain the record of cost of cultivation of
rice?
37. If you maintain the record, how much cost is required
for one ropani land?
38. How much income do you obtain from rice in a year?
39. Do you sell rice?
40. What are the problems of generally encountered during
rice marketing of rice?
3. Contact and Visit with Extension Workers
41. Do you know the JT/JTAs of your village? a. Yes
b. No
42. Do they come to
your home? a. Yes b. No
43. If they come, how much interval do they visit?
a. Once a week
b. twice a month c. once a
month d. Once in two months d. Once a year
44. Do the officers of District Agriculture Development
Office come to you?
a. Once a week
b. twice a month c.
Once a month d. once a year e.
No
45. How much do you visit JT/JTAs of your area?
a. Once a week b. twice a month c. Once a month d. Once a year
e. No
46. If No, why you do not visit to them?
47. Whom did you obtain the knowledge of rice cultivation
for the first time?
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S.N
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Sources
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Rank (On the basis of priority)
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1
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Agriculture Extension worker (DADO Office)
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2
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Agro vet
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3
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NGOs
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4
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Neighbor Farmers
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5
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Relatives
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Radio
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Television
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Fair and Exhibition
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9
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Published
materials related to Agriculture
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E-mail, Internet
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11
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Others
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48. Which is the most effective thing to obtain knowledge
and skill about rice cultivation?
49. In which extent you are satisfied with the service
provided by JT/JTAS of DADO?
a. Highly satisfied b. Satisfied c. Not satisfied
4. Availability of Agriculture Extension Materials
50. What kinds of Agriculture Extension Materials are
obtained by you about rice cultivation?
a. Poster
b. Pamphlet c.
Demonstrations d.
Television/Radio e. Others
51. How do you evaluate the agriculture extension
materials used by the agriculture extension workers about rice cultivation?
a. Regularly available b. Occasionally available c. Not available
52. How do you evaluate the Agriculture extension
materials about rice cultivation?
a. Highly
effective b. Effective c. Non effective
53. How do you agree with the knowledge and information
obtained about rice cultivation?
a. Strongly Agree b. Agree c. Unknown d. Disagree e. Strongly disagree
5. Problems about rice cultivation
54. What are the problems of the rice cultivation
according to you?
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S.N
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Problems
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Rank (Based on priority)
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1
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Quality seed
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2
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Technology
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3
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Fertilizer
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Insecticides/Pesticides
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Agricultural loan
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Irrigation
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Disease, Insect-pests management
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Market and price
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Storage
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10
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Others
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55. Would you give your suggestions about the increment of
rice production and productivity?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
6. The knowledge gained by the farmers from technology
adoption
Tick the correct answer asking following questions with the
farmer.
56. Do the improved varieties give more production than
local varieties?
a. Yes b.
No c. Unknown
57. Are there more disease, insect-pests in improved
varieties than local varieties of rice?
Yes b.
No c. Unknown
58. Is the rate of rice seed is 1.5kg to 1.75kg per
ropani?
Yes b.
No c. Unknown
59. Which is the
best month for main season rice planting?
a. Ashad
b. Shrawn c. Bhadra
60. Does rice has more profit than any other crops?
a. Yes b.
No c. Unknown
59. The organic mannure improve the quality of soil, does
it?
a. Yes b.
No c. Unknown
60. Does Nitrogen make the plant green and tall?
a. Yes b.
No c. Unknown
61. Does Phosphorus help in the development of root?
a. Yes b.
No c. Unknown
62. Does potash help to fight against diseases and insects?
a. Yes b.
No c. Unknown
63. Is regular irrigation is necessary for the proper
growth and development of rice plant?
Yes b.
No c. Unknown
64. For the more production of rice do you need weed management?
a. Yes b.
No c. Unknown
65. Is your rice variety an improved variety?
Yes b.
No c. Unknown
66. Blast, Blight and Khaira are harmful diseases of rice
crop?
a. Yes b.
No c. Unknown
67. Is the Borer
most harmful insect of rice?
a. Yes b.
No c. Unknown
68. Do you need to cleaning and winowing before packing?
a.Yes b.
No c. Unknown
69. Do you need to pack them in sack before taking them to
market?
Yes b.
No c. Unknown
70. Is there is more profit while the selling of rice is done in the
market in the scarcity period?
a. Yes b.
No c. Unknown
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