CONSTRUCTION OF SCALE FOR PERCEPTION OF FARMERS TOWARDS FARMER PRODUCER ORGANIZATION

Abstract

Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) is a farmer’s institution where group of 10-15 farmers collectively form an informal group and work together to increase the income at village level. To determine and notice how the farmers perceive about the FPO, the scale to measure perception was developed. On the basis of 14 criterion advocated by Edward and Likert, 37 statements were framed. To find out the content validity of the statements, the expert judges who had sound knowledge about the concept were selected and then the statements were administered to them. t test was administered to finalize the statements, t value more than 1.75 were included to develop the scale. Thus, 25 statements were finalized, 23 positive and 2 negative statements. Reliability of the statement determines how reliable the statements are to develop the scale odd-even and spearman brown formula was incorporated to find reliability. Final 25 statements were selected with reliability r value of 0.66 and spearman brown formula 0.77 was calculated.