An Assessment On Inclusion Of Private Input Dealers In The Public Extension Services Delivery System

The present study examined the amenability & readiness of private input dealers in deliverance of dairy and other livestock extension services. "Q Methodology" was adopted in Kancheepuram and Villupuram districts of Tamil Nadu state with 26 identified input dealers, handling dairy and other livestock input items, during the year 2016. The attentiveness of the respondents towards their inclusion in the public extension services system', were estimated subjectively with the help of twenty five attitude statements which were moderated out of forty five statements. Principle Component Analysis (PCA) was used to categorize the statements under four identified discourses based on the obtained Eigen values. The four defined discourses viz., "Risks and opportunities in the endeavour", "Socio-economic empowerment in the undertaking", "Elements of collaboration in the endeavour" and "Possible refraining behaviour / escapism in the process"; in a nutshell had cued positive agreement of input dealers to the statements supporting to their inclusion in public extension service stream.