Economic Affairs, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 379-388, September 2020 DOI: 10.46852/0424-2513.3.2020.9 How to cite this article: Medhi, S., Singha, A.K., Singh, R. and Singh, R.J. (2020). Socio-Economic, Psychological Profile and Constraints Faced by the KVK Adopted Farmers for Improved Rice Cultivation in West Garo Hills District. Economic Affairs, 65(3): 379-388. Source of Support: None; Conflict of Interest: None Socio-Economic, Psychological Profile and Constraints Faced by the KVK Adopted Farmers for Improved Rice Cultivation in West Garo Hills District S. Medhi 1* , A.K. Singha 2 , R. Singh 3 and R.J. Singh 3 1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ri Bhoi, ICAR RC for NEH Region Umiam, Meghalaya, India 2 ATARI Zone-VII, ICAR RC for NEH Region, Umiam, Meghalaya, India 3 College of Post Graduate Studies, CAU, Umiam, Meghalaya, India *Corresponding author: samirmedhi1993@gmail.com (ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0274-2692) Received: 11-04-2020 Revised: 18-07-2020 Accepted: 24-08-2020 ABSTRACT The study on socio-economic and psychological profle of the KVK adopted farmers of improved rice cultivation practices was conducted in West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya with 120 sample size from the adopted villages. Data collection was done with the help of pre-tested structured schedule through personal interview method. The majority of the respondents in adopted villages belonged to middle age category and medium level of education, nuclear family type and medium size of family with medium level of social participation. They engaged farming as primary occupation and had operational land holding size up to 1 ha with income level ranging from ` 25,900.00 to ` 1, 65,067.00. Most of the benefciary farmers had farming experience between the ages of 18 to 38 years, received medium level of trainings, fnancial credit facility from government sources. The benefciary had medium level of economic motivation, information seeking behaviour, decision-making ability, innovation proneness and atitude towards KVK with high level of market orientation and risk orientation. The study further indicates that among the various problems identifed by the respondents, inadequate availability of quality seed at proper time was highlighted as the major problem by the rice cultivators. Highlights m Majority of the respondents belonged to middle age category and medium level of education, family size and nuclear family type. m Farming is the primary occupation with income level ranging from ` 25,900.00 to ` 1,65,067.00 with farming experience between the age of 18 to 38 years. m The benefciary had medium level of economic motivation, information seeking behavior, decision making ability, innovation proneness and atitude towards KVK with high level of market orientation and risk orientation. m Inadequate availability of quality seed at proper time was highlighted as the major problem by the rice cultivators. Keywords: Socio-economic, Psychological, Profle, Adopted, Farmers, Villages Agriculture sector comprising of crops and livestock enterprises has been playing a vital role in reducing rural as well as aggregate poverty, socio- economic advancement and sustainable economic development in the country through the gradual improvement of rural economy (Singha et al. 2016). Over 58% of the rural households in the country depend on agriculture as their principal means of