Development of Scale to measure the Behavioural Intention of Farmers to Adopt Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture

Abstract

A scale was developed to measure the "Behavioural intention of farmers to adopt Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture (NSA)". Based on the review of literature and discussion with the expert's, 74 statements were enlisted. The Likert's summated rating technique was followed in the construction of scale. The list of 74 statements was sent to a panel of 120 experts with the request, to critically evaluate each statement for itsrelevancy to measure thebehavioural intention of farmers to adopt Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture. Out of 120 expertsselected for the scale construction, 40 experts responded in time and at the earliest. Based on their judgment an aggregate of 40 statements was selected. Statements having Relevancy Weightage 0.80 and Mean Relevancy Score 2.4 were considered for the item analysis. In item analysis, the selected 40 statements were administered on 40 farmers in the non-sample area. Finally, a total of 24 statements were selected for the study, based on the‘t’ values (> 1.75) resulted from the item analysis and were included in the final scale. The ‘R’ value of the scale was found to be 0.732 and the value of Cronbach’s alpha found to be 0.776 which was significant at 1% level indicating the high reliability. Hence, the scale developed wasfound to reliable and valid. Thus, the instrument developed to measure the behavioural intention of farmers to adopt Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture.