Evaluation of Insecticide Resistance Management Programme

AUTHOR: Rajinder Peshin
PUBLISHER: Daya Publishing House
ISBN: 9788170356059
YEAR: 2009
PAGES: 285
SIZE: 16 X 24 X 2 cms.
BINDING: Hard
LANGUAGE: English

ABOUT THE BOOK: There is scanty information available about the impact of different Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programmes implemented in India since 1974-75, and whatever information is documented is based on the project reports of the implementing agencies which lack rigorousness of social science research based on scientific methods to measure the implementation and outcome of IPM programmes for decision making purposes. The importance of evaluation research to determine the merit and worth of agricultural programmes in general and IPM programme in particular has not caught the attention of programme planners and programme implementing agencies in India as is the case with developed countries of the world. Programme evaluation evolved primarily in the United States of America, and became a semi-professional discipline.
The book "Evaluation of Insecticide Resistance Management Programme" Theory and Practice" is about insecticide resistance management (IRM) based IPM programme. The methodologies for evaluation of IPM programmes are documented in the book. It covers the content and process areas of IRM programme implemented in ten cotton-growing states of India by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India under the Technology Mission on Cotton (TMC), Mini-Mission (MM-II) programme since 2002. The development, implementation and impact of IPM programmes is discussed in the book. The book gives an overview of cotton growing scenario in India and the losses caused by insect pests. The outcome of formative evaluation of IRM programme in Punjab is presented as a case study.
The book shall serve the biological scientists (entomologists) and social scientists (extension educationists, anthropologists and economists) associated with IPM-innovation development process. It will provide the feedback to agriculture policy planners about the worth of IPM programmes at farmers' level and the role of evaluation research in agricultural programmes. The book is a significant contribution of the extension education discipline to the multidisciplinary field of IPM. At post-graduate level the students will find the book as a useful guide for planning and conducting diffusion and evaluation research in the dynamic field of IPM.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. Rajinder Peshin is Associate Professor of Agricultural Extension Education at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu (SKUAST), India. He is an agricultural science graduate, and did his M.Sc and Ph.D in extension education at the Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India. Dr. Rajinder Peshin has a rich experience of working with the farmers. He worked as Agricultural Extension Officer in the Department of Agriculture, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, before joining the university. He has worked in the Krishi Vigyan Kendras, university research stations of SKUAST-Jammu. Presently he is associated with teaching extension education at graduate and post-graduate level at SKUAST of Jammu. He has been associated with the IPM programmess since 1993 in different capacities. He has authored one book on "Integrated Pest Management: Adoption and its Impact on Agriculture", and has more than 25 research and review articles on IPM published in international and national journals of repute and books. He is life member of many national and international scientific and professional societies, and is Councillor of "Indian Society of Ecology". His field of expertise is IPM diffusion and evaluation research.

CONTENTS:
Preface
List of Abbreviations and Terms
List of Figures
List of Tables

1. Insecticide Resistance Management in Cotton
    I. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Cotton
    II. Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM): A Component of IPM
    III. Cotton Growing Scenario in Punjab
    IV. Evaluation of IRM Programme
    V. Objectives of the Study
    VI. Significance of the Study
    VII. Limitations of the Study

2. Integrated Pest Management Implementation and Impact
    I. IPM: A Historical Perspective
    II. Development of IPM
    III. IPM Programmes Around the World
    IV. Knowledge Achievement: A Learning Process
    V. Adoption of IPM Practices
    VI. Economic Rewards of IPM Programmes
    VII. Adaptability and Constraints

3. Evaluation Research: A Theoretical View
    I. Evaluation Research: A Theoretical View
    II. Types and Forms of Programme Evaluation
    III. Methodologies/or Evaluation of IPM Programmes
    IV. Theoretical Frame Work of the Study

4. Methodology for Formative Evaluation
    I. Research Design of the Study
    II. Locale of the Study
    III. Sampling Plan of the Study
    IV. Selection of the Respondents
    V. Selection of IPM Practices under IRM Programme
    VI. Operational Definitions
    VII. Construction of Research Schedules for Data Collection
    VIII. Pre-testing of Research Schedules
    IX. Reliability of Knowledge Test and Scale
    X. Weight-age Scheme for Knowledge Test Items
    XI. Data Collection
    XII. Objective Wise Research Hypotheses
    XIII. Statistical Analysis

5. Evaluation of the Insecticide Resistance Management Programme
    I. Selection Procedure of Villages and Farmers Under IRM Programme
    II. Profile of the Respondents
    III. Extension Methodology Followed for Dissemination of Technology
    IV. Knowledge Gain of the Farmers about IPM
    V. Adoption of IPM Practices
    VI. Economic Benefits at the Farmers' Level
    VII. Adaptability and Constraints
    VIII. Bt-cotton: Adoption Before Recommendation
    IX. Evaluation of the IRM Programme by Trainee Farmers
    X. Inferences

6. Summary and Conclusion
    I. Introduction and Objectives
    II. Materials and Methods
    III. Findings
Appendices
Bibliography
Index