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    TECHNOLOGY UTILIZATION BEHAVIOUR OF PADDY GROWERS IN SINDHUDURG DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA STATE
    (dbskkv., Dapoli, 2019) Hattalli, Ambarish Dhareppa; Sawant, B. N.
    The study was conducted in Kudal, Kankavali, Malvan and Sawantwadi tahsils of Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra state. The sample was constituted 120 paddy growers drawn from twenty villages. The respondents were interviewed with the help of a specially designed schedule. The ex-post facto research design was used for the present study. The analysis of data revealed that majority of the respondents were middle age group, moderately educated, medium level of farming experience, marginal land holding, medium area under rice cultivation, medium annual income, medium social participation, extension contact, economic motivation and „medium‟ knowledge level. The data regarding technology utilization behaviour of paddy growers revealed that majority of the respondents had „medium‟ technology utilization behaviour of the selected agricultural technologies of paddy crop. The data regarding practice-wise tehnology utilization behaviour revealed that the respondents had „full‟ technology utilization behaviour of „use high yielding variety‟, „one ploughing before or after first rain‟, „use quality seed‟, „transplanting of seedling at proper age reduces the incidence of pest‟, „harvest the crop at 90 per cent grain maturation and plants are still green‟, „dry under sun for 2 days after harvest in the field‟, „before storage, dry grains for 3-4 days under sun‟. The „partial‟ technology utilization behaviour practices were „maintain recommended plant population during transplanting‟, „apply 40 kg N, 50 kg P and 50 kg K/ha as a basal dose during transplanting‟. The association between profile of paddy growers and their technology utilization behavior namely, area under rice cultivation, rice yield, annual income, experience of rice cultivation, age, farming experience, land holding, area under rice crop, social participation, extension contact and economic motivation and their technology utilization behavior of paddy growers was non-significant. However, the association of education, annual income with technology utilization behavior of paddy growers was significant. Major constraints faced by respondents in paddy cultivation were high cost of inputs, lack of knowledge about recommended plant protection practices. To minimize the constraints in technology utilization (adoption) of recommended paddy production technology majority of the respondents suggested that, need to increase the minimum support prize of paddy, seeds of resistant variety should be available to the farmers at tahasil level respectively.
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    CROP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF VEGETABLE GROWERS IN DAPOLI TAHSIL OF RATNAGIRI DISTRICT
    (dbskkv., Dapoli, 2019) GHORPADE, POOJA SADASHIV; Mehta, P. G.
    The study was conducted in Dapoli tahsil of Ratnagiri district of Konkan region. The sample constituted of 100 vegetable growing farmers from 10 villages. The respondents were interviewed with the help of specially designed schedule. Majority of the vegetable growers belonged to middle age (69.00 per cent), had Pre-primary level of education (31.00 per cent), marginal land holding (51.00 per cent), medium family size (51.00 per cent), farming as their main occupation (82.00 per cent), small area under vegetable cultivation (55.00 per cent), medium annual income (73.00 per cent),medium experience in vegetable cultivation (68.00 per cent), mediummarketorientation (55.00 per cent), medium mass media exposure (59.00 per cent) and medium change proneness (57.00 per cent). During this study, it is observed that majority of vegetable growers had preferred crops like brinjal, bitter gourd and amaranthus. Majority of growers except bitter gourd growers had used improved varieties and used seed rate more than university recommendation. Considerable proportion of the vegetable growers had raised seedlings of vegetables on their own farm. Majority of the respondents had reported incidence of pests and diseases on their crops and had adopted control measures. The study revealed that seeds are expensive and in some cases seeds of poor quality were the major problems(54.00 per cent), followed by lack of inputs i.e. seed material, fertilizer, implements etc. (46.00 per cent) and fluctuation in market price (45.00 per cent) were the major constraints.Wage rates need to be decided by Village Panchayat (73.00 per cent) and providing subsidies for fertilizers and purchasing implements (67.00 per cent) were the major suggestions reported from study area.