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Institutional PublicationsItem Open Access Evaluation Report of International Krishimela 2013(University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2014-12-26) Gangadharappa, N.R.; Shivalinge Gowda, N.S.; Krishnamurthy, B.; Lakshminarayan, M.T.; Govinda Gowda, V.; Lalitha, K.C.; Madhuprasad, V.L.; University of Agricultural Sciences, BangaloreThesisItem Open Access A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF ONION PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES AND MARKETING BEHAVIOUR OF ONION GROWERS IN GADAG DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA(University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 2018-08-01) SHASHIDHAR K., BARAKER; SHASHIDHAR K., BARAKER; Lalitha, K.C.; Lalitha, K.C.The study was carried out in four taluks of Gadag district during 2017- 18 to study on knowledge and adoption of onion production technologies and marketing behaviour of onion growers in Gadag district of Karnataka. Data was collected from 120 onion growers using a pre-tested interview schedule. The results revealed considerable respondents 45.83% had fallen in medium knowledge category while 32.50 per cent and 21.67% comes under low and high knowledge category. In case of adoption, 42.50 % of the respondents belonged to medium category followed by 31.66 and 25.84% of them belonging to high and low adoption category, respectively. Major problems faced by the onion growers are fluctuation in market price, middleman, commission agents, hand weeding in time, labour consuming and expensive, lack of capital and NAFED do not purchase onion, high cost of fertilizers and pesticides, Labour problem during harvesting. The major suggestions expressed by the onion growers were support price based on production cost, export of onion to foreign countries and crop demonstration about improved variety to overcome the problems.