Empowering farmers: The socio-economic impact of paddy seed village programme in Sopore, Kashmir

Seed Village Programme is one of the dynamic concepts or projects which ensures the multiplication and supply of quality seed at appropriate time and affordable cost to the farmers. It is termed as “Compact Area Approach”. Baramulla district has 6 SDAOs, out of which Sub-Division Agriculture, Sopore was selected purposively on the basis of maximum number of seed villages from the year 2019-2022. Sub-Division Agriculture, Sopore consists of 4 agricultural zones and all of the zones were selected for the study. A total of 120 respondents with the help of a pretested interview schedule were selected. The findings revealed that majority 67.50 percent of the beneficiaries had 30-60% impact, 20.00 percent of the beneficiaries had an impact of above 60%, followed by 12.50 percent which had had an impact up to 30% on the socio-economic status of the beneficiaries.