Impact of Knowledge and Infrastructure on Paddy Productivty

Abstract

The Knowledge acquired through both formal and informal sources and infrastructure available with amicable accessibility provides major incentives to the farmers not only to improve their agricultural productivity but also the living standard and livelihood pattern. In this paper thus an attempt has been made to develop the Knowledge Index (considering both formal & informal sources of knowledge) and Infrastructural Index in order to observe the impact of these two indices on the agricultural productivity across the farm sizes and villages with varied irrigation status under study. A total sample size of 474 has been considered for the study. The analytical tool i.e. PCA has been used for the construction of Knowledge and Infrastructural indices. The Simple Linear regression (OLS) has been undertaken to observe the effect of knowledge index, infrastructural index and the interaction of the two indices on the productivity. A significant positive impact of knowledge index, infrastructural index and their interaction on productivity has been found.