Tools and techniques for assessing the accomplishments and impediments.

Table 1: Tools and techniques for assessing the accomplishments and impediments.

Sl. No.	Objective	Tools/ techniques
1	Estimation of net returns from different enterprise combination introduced in the model villages.	Budgeting technique
2	Ascertaining the influencing factors for choice of crops and improved rice varieties.	Probit analysis
3	Ranking of important traits influencing adoption of ICAR-NRRI rice varieties.	Garrett ranking technique
4	Identification of drought situation as well as coping strategies.	Calculation of standard precipitation index (SPI) from monthly rainfall data (2009-18); identification of coping strategies and ranking.
5	Assessment of credit demand and availability situation.	Estimation of credit demand; credit access.
6	Understand the perception of beneficiaries on convergence of activities by various organizations.	Recording of observation on 10-point scale and averaging; Mann-Whitney ‘U’ test to show the un-anonymity between beneficiary and non-beneficiary groups.