Behavioral approach of farming community towards land and water use in the study area of kalyandurg, brahmasamudram and setturu mandals of anantapur district, ap, India

The present paper examines the Behavioral approach of the farming community in the study area of Kalyandurg, Brahmasamudram and Setturu mandals of Anantapur district, AP. For understanding of the Behavioral Approach of the farming community in the study area, I have been selected 99 farmers from three mandals of the study area and analyzed various Socio-Economic characteristics of the farming community along with their awareness on land and water use practices. In this regard, from 99 samples of the farmers I have analyzed mandal wise age, Educational status, size of the family, number of family members engaged in Agriculture, Land holding sizes of the sample farmers, Water management through various sources of irrigation, source of irrigation for Agriculture in the study area, Area under single crop in the sample mandals, Problems encountered in Agro-Biological factors of production, Awareness of the farming community on land management practices, change cropping pattern to use less water with more irrigation, Awareness of the farming community on the benefits of changing the cropping pattern and awareness on water harvesting methods. The farming community is facing the problems of low yield, uneven rainfall attack of diseased and poor land and water management practices in the drought prone area of Anantapur district in Rayalaseema Region in Andhra Pradesh.