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Subject: Extension Education × Author: Amit × Start date: 2005 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Adoption status of onion growers regarding pre and post-harvest management practices
    (CCSHAU,HiSAR, 2020) Amit; Bharat Singh
    The study was conducted in Mewat and Ambala districts of Haryana state during 2018-2020. These districts have maximum area under onion cultivation. A total number of 120 onion growing farmers constituted the sample of the study. The information about respondent`s socio-personnel traits, knowledge level pertaining to pre and post-harvest management practices of onion, adoption level of pre and postharvest practices and constraints encountered by them in adoption of pre and post-harvest management practices were collected with the help of pre tested structured interview schedule. The study revealed that transportation, proper harvesting, maturity index, irrigation, weed control measures, time of sowing in nursery and time of transplanting were the practices about which majority of farmers had correct knowledge. Stop irrigation before 15 days of harvesting, insect pests and their control measures, curing, storage and diseases and their control measures were the practices about which majority of farmers had incorrect or insufficient knowledge. The overall knowledge level of respondents about pre and post-harvest management practices was medium to high since 85 per cent of respondents belonged to these categories and only 15 per cent farmers belonged to low knowledge category. The study also showed that transportation, maturity index, irrigation, time of sowing in nursery, time of transplanting, weed control measures and recommended seed rate were fully adopted practices by onion farmers whereas they had least adopted or not adopted the practices like diseases and their control, storage, curing, stoping irrigation before 15 days of harvesting, grading, insect pests and their control measures and precooling. The overall adoption level of pre and post-harvest management practices of onion growers was also found moderate to high since 80 per cent of the onion growers belonged to said categories. Regarding constraints faced by onion growers included lack of finance for purchase of inputs, high price of pesticides, lack of remunerative MSP policy by government, middleman malpractices, unskilled labour, no crop insurance coverage, lack of proper knowledge regarding post-harvest management practices as well lack of knowledge of these among field functionaries were very serious constraints experienced by the farmers. The government should seriously look into the problems faced by the onion growers and necessary steps or actions should be taken to formulate remunerative MSP policy and its implementation, affordable prices of insecticides and pesticides and organization of sufficient and proper training for both field functionaries and farmers to make the enterprise profitable and sustainable.