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Subject: Extension Education × Author: Bhatia, Rajesh × Start date: 1991 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Sugarcane Cultivation : Technological Gap Bud Constraints
    (College of Agriculture Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 1991) Bhatia, Rajesh; Makhija, V. K
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    Farmers' knowledge and adoption of organic paddy farming practices in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Bhatia, Rajesh; Mehta, S.K.
    In recent years, organic agriculture has gained considerable importance. Organic farming has a concern about environment, agricultural traditions, animal welfare, farming communities, sensible energy use, soil and water conservation etc. The present study Farmers knowledge and adoption of organic paddy farming practices in Haryana has been planned with following objectives: (i) To determine the extent of knowledge possessed by the farmers, (ii) To determine the extent of adoption of organic paddy farming practices, (iii) To establish association between farmers personality traits with knowledge and adoption of organic paddy farming and (iv) To find out the constraints faced by the farmers in adoption of organic paddy farming practices. Majority of the respondents were of young to middle age, well educated, having low to medium land holdings, small to medium herd size and the most popular information source was progressive farmer whereas, television and newspaper were highly used for obtaining agricultural information. The farmers have a positive attitude towards organic farming for better yield. High profit was the top most economic motivation. Farmers tried organic paddy as risk preference is must for progress. With regard to knowledge level (48.00%), (35.33%) and (16.67%) of the farmers belonged to medium, high and low category. Highest knowledge of respondents was reported in vermicompost (75.17%) followed by organic manures and crop residues (65.57%), concept of organic paddy farming (64.13%), weed management (63.89%), pest management (62.33%) and knowledge percentage on bio fertilizers was (44.72%).Knowledge on peat management, herbicides and bio fertilizers need to be improved. Age of the respondents had a highly significant but negative relationship, positive and highly significant correlation between education, socio-economic status and economic motivation was recorded with knowledge of the respondents. More than half of farmers (55.33%) belonged to medium level of organic paddy adoption while 24.00 per cent of them belonged to low category and remaining 20.67 per cent of them were in high adoption category. Nearly (42.67%) farmers had grown organic paddy for the first time and only (12.00%) of respondents were growing organic paddy for more than three years. Adoption for organic manures and crop residues was found highest (62.64%) followed by bio fertilizers (56.83%), weed management (56.17%), vermicompost (53.56%) and pest management (51.73%). Age of the respondents was having a negative and highly significant correlation with adoption. Education and socio economic status was having a highly significant correlation with the adoption level. Further, the land holding, attitude towards improved technology, economic motivation and risk preference had a positive and significant correlation with the adoption level of farmers regarding organic paddy farming practices. Problem about human labour , low premium prices for organic paddy , inadequacy of required manures and bio fertilizers , inclination of farmers towards use of chemical pesticides , lack of agencies for purchase of organic paddy , lack of timely and appropriate transfer of organic paddy growing practices by extension organizations, department of agriculture and private agencies and lack of proper guidance and training on organic paddy practices were the major constraint. There is a need for all stakeholders to work together.