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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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    COMMUNICATION PATTERNS BETWEEN SOURCE, LINKAGE AND CONSUMERS OF FARM TECHNOLOGY IN GUJARAT
    (AAU, Anand, 1978) Patel, Narendra C.; Patel, I. C.
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    A STUDY ON MODERNISATION OF AGRICULTURE AMONG THE FARMERS OF KHEDA DISTRICT OF GUJARAT STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1994) Jagadeeshwara, K.; Patel, H. L.
    India has been making many sided efforts in the agricultural sector over the last four decades through prudent planning and arduous accomplishment of agricultural development programmes. Indian population has been estimated to be 100 million by 2000 A.D. Among the prevailing plethora of activities to solve this gigantic problem, modernisation of agriculture is the germane and plausible way. Social scientists suggest modernisation is not in the character of society but in the character of individual. Unfortunately, where the individual (farmer) should be the focus of attention has been very little understood. Thus, a more precise knowledge on how an individual is modernised or what personality traits are crucial towards the acquisition of modern style of life in the modernisation process needs to be studied carefully. Kheda district is being considered as one of the progressive districts of Gujarat State.The irrigation facilities has led to intensive cultivation of all the coiunercial and food crops which facilitated more income, high standard of living and hence more agricultural nodernisation among the farmers. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to know how modernisation characteristics influence overall modernisation and extent of adoption of different agricultural practices namely, extent of use of improved varieties, chemical fertilizer,pesticides , fungicides, improved agricultural implements, improved irrigation practices in major commercial and food crops followed by use of improved dairy practices. The research study was planned with the following specific objectives. (1) To study the differences in the modernisation characteristics among different categories of farmers. (2) To study overall modernisation and extent of adoption of selected technologies among different categories of farmers. (3) To find out the relationship between socio-psycho, communication, economic and situational modernisation characteristics of farmers with overall modernisation and extent of adoption among different categories of farmers. (4) To find out the differences in the contribution of selected socio-psycho, communication, economic and situational modernisation characteristics with overall modernisation and extent of adoption among different categories of farmers. (5) To study the direct and indirect effects of selected socio-psycho, conaunication, economic and situational modernisation characteristics with overall modernisation and extent of adoption among different categories of farmers. METHODOLOGY The present study was conducted in Kheda district of Gujarat state. Four talukas namely Anand, Borsad, Nadiad and Petlad were purposively selected. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 216 respondents from four categories of farmers from among twelve villages namely, Gopalapura, Mogar, Vadod, Asodar , Kavitha, Kinkhlod, Kanjari, Narasanda, Vadthal, DevataJ, Morad and Simurda Virol. Design of the study Ex-post-facto research design was adopted for the present study. Two dependent variables namely, overall modernisation and extent of adoption were selected for the purpose of conducting this study. Twenty three modernisation characteristics (independent variables) were selected namely age, educationl caste, family type, social participation, cosmopoliteness, mass media participation, contact with extension agency, achievement motivation, innovativeness, scientific orientation, risk preference, rationality attitude towards modernisation of agriculture, commercialisation, market perception, market orientation, income, farm size, farm power, material possession, livestock possession and level of living. The attitude scale developed by the researcher of this study was utilised for measuring the attitude of the farmers towards the modernisation of agriculture. The other dependent and independent variables were measured by utilising the developed scales of other research workers. The data were collected with the help of structured schedule by personal interview method. The data so collected were coded, classified, tabulated and analysed in order to make the findings meaningful.
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    A STUDY ON RESEARCH MANAGEMENT ABILITY OF RESEARCH SCIENTISTS WORKING AS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT/STATION /PROJECT/SCHEME IN GUJARAT AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
    (AAU, Anand, 1993) Patel, Arunkumar A.; Patel, H. L.
    Management of the organisation has attained paramount importance for the achievement of goals in modern time. We can define research management as 'an effective and efficient utilisation and coordination of resources to achieve the objectives of research,programmes'. The agricultural research management in India is relatively a new area. The head of departments/stations/projects/schemes of the agricultural university have to perform many research management functions. Thus, to make a research organisation more productive, the proper research management practices should be adopted by the research leaders. However, it is observed that the scientists who are working as the head have neither education nor experience in the field of management before they become head, eventhough, they have to carry the responsibilities of management aspects too. Thus, to measure extent and manner of research management ability of scientists who are working as head in Gujarat Agricultural University, the present investigation was undertaken with the following, objectivess 1. To study the selected personal job related, organizational and socio-psychological characteristics of the head of research department/station/project/scheme of Gujarat Agricultural University. 2. To measure the research management ability of the heads of research department/station/project/scheroe of Gujarat Agricultural University. 3. To develop the scales to measure; (a) research management ability of the heads, (b) attitude of research scientists towards research work. 4. To findout the relationship between selected independent variables and research management ability of the research head of the Gujarat Agricultural University. 5. To explore the inter-correlation of selected variables of heads. 6. To predict the extent of variation in research management ability caused by selected variables. 7. To know the direct and indirect effect of the independent variables on the research management ability of heads. 8. To study the constraints faced by research heads in research management. 9. To elicit the suggestions in overcoming the existing constraints for making the effective research management. The study was conducted in Gujarat Agricultural University. All the independently working heads of the agricultural research departments/stations/projects/ schemes of the university were selected. Moreover for measuring research management ability of the selected heads two immediate subordinates of each head were randomly selected from respective department/station/ project/scheme. Thus in all, 69 research heads and 138 their subordinates were selected. The respective questionnaire to the heads and subordinates were separately mailed to each person. Finally 86.95% responses were received. In order to measure research management ability of the head the scale developed for the purpose was used. The attitude scale to measure their attitude towards research work was also developed. Other seven scales developed by different investigators in past were also used to measure different independent variables selected for the study. In all, one dependent variable i.e. research management ability and 27 independent variables were studied.
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    A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF KEY VILLAGE SCHEME IN GUJARAT STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1978) HALYAL, K. G.; Patel, H. N.
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    INDIGENOUS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT BY TRIBAL FARM WOMEN IN VADODARA DISTRICT OF GUJARAT STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1998) Patel, Jayantilal G.; Trivedi, J. C.
    OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY The overall objective of this investigation was to study the level of participation of tribal farm women in indigenous resource management in Vadodara district of Gujarat state. The specific objectives of the study were as follows : 1 To study the selected characteristics of tribal farm women. 2 To assess the knowledge level of tribal farm women regarding indigenous resource management in the areas of agriculture, animal husbandry and minor forest products. 3 To ascertain the participation of tribal farm women in indigenous resource management activities. 4 To assess the income contribution of tribal farm women from indigenous resources. 5 To findout the extent of relationship , between selected characteristics of tribal farm women and their level of knowledge. 6 To know the extent of relationship between selected characteristics of tribal farm women and their level of overall participation. 7 To explore the training needs of tribal farm women in indigenous resource management activities. 8 To identify the problems faced by tribal farm women in indigenous resource management. The present study was conducted in tribal area of Vadodara district of Gujarat state. Out of twelve talukas, three talukas namely Chhotaudepur, Pavi-jetpur and Naswadi were purposively selected. These talukas possess more than fifty per cent of the tribal population. From each taluka four tribal dominated villages were selected using random sampling techniques. Thus, 12 villages were selected for study and random selection of tribal farm women from each village was made proportionately on the basis of two major criteria (i) maize as a major crop and (ii) dairy farming as a minor source of income. Thus, sample for this study was 240. The data were collected through structured schedule by personal interview method. The dependent and independent variables were measure«i by utilizing appropriate scales and procedures adopted by other research workers. To measure the knowledge of tribal farm women regarding indigenous resource management (IRM) in the areas of agriculture, animal husbandry and minor forest products, a knowledge test was developed, standardized and used. The statistical tools used to analyse the data were : percentage, mean, standard deviation, coefficient of correlation and path co-efficient. FINDINGS The important findings of the study are summarised as under : 1 Majority of the tribal farm women were illiterate, belonged to low to medium level of socio-economic status and extension contact, middle age group and having no membership in any social organisation. 2 Majority of the tribal farm women belonged to joint family with medium size of family and having one kachha house. 3 Majority of the tribal farm women were exclusively dependent on farming within five acres of land and labour work. 4 A great majority of the tribal farm women possessed one to two bullocks and three to four milch animals. 5 More than three-fourth of the tribal farm women possessed local implements of farming. 6 Slightly less than half of the tribal farm women had total annual income of Rs.5001/- to Rs.10,000/- but debt upto Rs.10,000/-. 7 More than half of the tribal farm women had 6 to 10 years of farming experience. 8 Slightly more than half of tribal farm women had migration with their family in search of agricultural labour work and non-agricultural labour work. 9 More than two third of tribal farm women were having medium to high level of cosmopolite-localiteness, economic motivation, high level of risk-preference; three-fourth had scientific orientation and 67.92 per cent had medium to high level of knowledge regarding IRM in the areas of agriculture, animal husbandry and minor forest products. 10 Present study revealed important aspects about different activities participated by tribal farm women as IRM activities. The important points raised from the investigation are stipulated below in descending order with reference to the number of tribal farm women participated in the activities depending on the income generation (sale), home purpose, selfdoing, supervising and assisting etc., milking (96.25 per cent), separation of grains (91.24 per cent), plucking of 'TIMRU' leaves (80.83 per cent), removing seeds from pods (72.50 per cent), rearing cocks for meat (68.75 per cent), collection of gum (68.75 per cent), fibber extraction (63.34 per cent), making 'TOPALA', 'TOPALI', 'CHABADI', 'KARANDIYA', 'SUPDA', bow and arrows and toys (61.24 per cent), collection of Mahua flowers (57.50 per cent), making dishes CPATARADA') and bowls ('PADAYA') from 'KHAKHAR' leaves (56.25 per cent), drying of leafy vegetables (53.34 per cent), plucking of ripe fruits from 'CHAROLI' tree (52.08 per cent), collection of honey (36.26 per cent) and mat-making from pam ('TAD') leaves (32.50 per cent). 11 Slightly less than two-fifth (38.75 per cent) of the tribal farm women had medium level of overall participation followed by 35.42 and 25.83 per cent with low and high level of overall participation in IRM activities, respectively. 12 Among 19 independent variables i.e. type of family, risk preference, scientific orientation and overall participation were positively and significantly correlated with level of knowledge of tribal farm women regarding IRM. While fifteen variables viz., education, social participation, size of family, type of family, socio-economic status, extension contact, housing pattern, farm power, material possession, indebtedness, cosmopolite localite-ness, economic motivation, risk preference, scientific orientation and knowledge of IRM had positive and significant, correlation whereas only one variable viz., occupation had negative and significant correlation with participation in IRM activities. 13 As regards direct effect, the variables social participation, followed by knowledge of IRM, size of family and education exhibited medium positive direct effects in IRM activities. The direct effect of extension contact and housing pattern were positive and low. The total indirect effects of education, size and type of family, socio-economic status, extension contact, housing pattern, indebted-ness, cosmopolitelocaliteness, economic motivation, risk preference and scientific orientation were comparatively higher than their respective direct effects. 14 Slightly less than half (45.42 per cent) of the tribal farm women had derived 51-7 5 per cent of their total annual income from indigenous resources. 15 Majority of the tribal farm women expressed their training needs in the important areas like plant protection, seed and grain processing, control of stored grain pests, feeding and caring the animals, selection of eggs for hatching, feeding and caring the poultry birds, raising of seedling, pickle making, kitchen gardening, techniques for better quantity and quality of gum, different designs for toys, making dishes ('PATARADA') and bowls ('PADAYA') by machine and marketing strategy for medicinal plants/materials. 16 Major problems faced by the tribal farm women in IRM activities were (i) products do not fetch reasonable price, (ii) burden of work in farm at home (ill) dry, poor soil and small holding and (iv) lack of information of new agricultural technology.
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    A STUDY ON PRODUCTIVITY OF SUBJECT MATTER SPECIALISTS WORKING UNDER TRAINING AND VISIT SYSTEM IN GUJARAT STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1991) Popat, M N; Patel, H L
    The functionary, subject matter specialists in training and visit system is an important link between university scientists and extension personnel. The SMSs acquire the technical know how from scientists during monthly working and in turn communicate the same to VLWs/AEOs during fortnightly training. Thus, the success of T and V system largely depends on the quality and competency of the SMSs.
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    A STUDY ON TECHNO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES IN ADOPTION OF DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM BY MANGO ORCHARD GROWERS OF JUNAGADH DISTRICT IN GUJARAT STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1997) DESAI, C. P.; TRIVEDI, J. C.
    Land and water are the two basic inputs for progress in agriculture and economic development of any country. Gujarat State has a relatively lower share in the overall availability of water in India. In Gujarat, only 23 per cent of the total cultivable land of the state is under irrigation. Even with the fullest exploitation of the Sardar Sarovar Project, about 52 per cent of the state agriculture would be dependent on the mercy of monsoon, particularly erratic, inadequate and uncertain rainfall. Hence, it is necessary to economize the use of water for agriculture to bring more area under irrigation. This could be achieved by introducing the advanced and sophisticated method of drip irrigation. Saurashtra region is considered as a dry farming area, where the availability of water for irrigation in wells is extremely scarce and irregular. Therefore, the farmers of this region have been attracted towards the modern method of irrigation and they have introduced drip irrigation system with the hope of making the judicious and scientific use of irrigation water at hand on farm lands and thereby overcoming the various problems such as labour, money and water management. Any techhology that is adopted, needs to be assessed periodically to suggest the effective changes for subsequent functioning and this truly holds good with drip irrigation system as quite a few years have already been passed and probably this is the high time to examine the consequences of this system. Therefore, "A Study on Techno-Economic Consequences in Adoption of Drip Irrigation System by Mango Orchard Growers of Junagadh District in Gujarat State" was undertaken with the following specific objectives : 1. To study the personal-social, agro-economic, psychological and communication characteristics of the mango orchard growers. 2. To study the innovation-decision process in relation to drip irrigation system adopted by the mango orchard growers. 3. To study the techno-economic developments (changes) consequent upon adoption of drip irrigation system by the mango orchard growers. 4. To construct and standardize test to measure the level of knowledge of mango orchard growers about drip irrigation system. 5. To ascertain the extent of economic gain accrued by the mango orchard growers as a result of adoption of drip irrigation system. 6. To find out the relationship between dependent and independent variables of the respondents. 7. To know the extent of contribution of independent variables on dependent variables. 8. To analyse the constraints faced by mango orchard growers in adoption of drip irrigation system and seek suggestions to overcome them. The, study was conducted in six talukas of Junagadh district namely Talala, Malia (Hatina), Una, Mendarada, Vanthali and Visavadar. These talukas were the first six talukas in the district having maximum number of drip sets installed in mango orchards. Four villages having maximum number of drip sets installed in mango orchards were selected from each of the selected talukas. The mango orchard growers, those who had installed and used drip irrigation system in their mango orchards for successively more than three years, were chosen at random from each identified village in such a manner that there would be proportional to total size of mango orchard growers in respective village fell under each of the six talukas. Thus, the sample consisted of 175 respondents for the study which constituted 24 per cent of the total size of drip sets under mango orchards in the district. Before and after approach was followed to know the consequences implicit through the adoption of drip irrigation system by the mango orchard growers. The data for agriculture year 1995-96 were collected from the same respondents by arranging personal interview with 175 mango orchard growers of the twenty-four selected villages with the help of interview schedule. In order to measure the knowledge level of mango orchard growers, the test developed for the purpose was used. The other dependent and independent variables were measured by using suitable scales and procedures adopted by various researchers. The collected data were then transferred to master table and analysed in order to make the findings meaningful. For analysis of the data, the statistical measures such as percentage, coefficients of correlation, stepwise multiple regression and path coefficient analysis were used. MAJOR FINDINGS : The important findings of the study were as under : 1. Majority of the respondents belonged to middle age group and were having secondary and college level education. 2. Most of the respondents belonged to higher castes. 3. Little more than half of the respondents had nuclear type of family and having small to medium size of family in great majority cases. 4. Majority of the respondents had membership in one or more than one organization and had medium socio-economic status. 5. Majority of the respondents had farming and animal husbandry occupations as source of income. 6. Majority of the respondents were found to have minimum farm power i.e. upto two bullocks, medium level of material possession and were having medium size of herds. 7. Little more than two-fifth (41,14 per cent) of the respondents possessed big size of land holding. 8. Majority of the respondents (i.e. 64.00 per cent and 61.71 per cent) had covered 51 to 100 per cent of the area under drip irrigation and had covered 76 to 100 per cent of the area under mango orchard, respectively. 9. An overwhelming number of the respondents had irrigation potentiality ranged from 76 to 100 per cent. 10. Slight more than one-third (i.e. 35.43 per cent and 33.71 per cent) of the respondents had cropping intensity in between 151 to 200 per cent and an annual income upto Rs.50,000 respectively, 11. Majority of the respondents were found to be under the category of medium credit orientation. 12. Majority of the respondents had medium level of economic motivation,were highly innovative with medium riskpreference . 13. A large majority of the respondents were found to have medium scientific orientation, moderately favourable attitude towards drip irrigation system and medium level of knowledge regarding drip irrigation system. 14. A vast majority of the respondents had expressed moderate satisfaction derived as a result of drip irrigation system. 15. Majority of the respondents had medium contact with extension agencies and had medium utilization of information sources. 16. Majority (56.57 per cent) of the respondents had medium level of innovation-decision in relation to drip irrigation system. As regards the stages of innovation-decision process followed by the respondents, majority of them (82.^9 per cent) were having awareness-knowledge about drip irrigation system and were found to have reached the persuasion (89.14 per cent), confirmation (88.57 per cent), decision (53.71 per cent) and implementation (51.43 per cent) stages of innovation-decision process. In case of rejection points at different stages, there were in all 48.57 per cent rejecters and found nearly half (48.57 per cent) of the respondents at implementation stage and minimum at persuasion stage (10.86 per cent). So far as the skipping trend is concerned, there were in all 85 cases of skipping in innovation-decision process and skipping was found to follow only three trends. 17. Majority (73.14 per cent) of the respondents were found to have medium level of techno-economic consequences as a result of drip irrigation system. The adoption of drip irrigation system had resulted in many changes not only in the farming aspect alone, but also in the socio-economic aspects. The system had contributed for a significant increase in area under fruit crops. Cropping intensity and cropping pattern had been changed in the farmers' fields with the inclusion of several fruit and commercial crops. Farm machinery/farm implements and household possession had also been increased and many farmers had diverted their cropped area to orchards. The savings and investment, standard of living and self-sufficiency of majority of respondents had been increased as a result of adoption of drip irrigation system. 18. Majority (71.43 per cent) of the respondents had accrued medium level of overall economic gain of drip irrigation system. The mango orchard growers had reaped many advantages of drip irrigation system. Majority of the respondents had benefited by saving of water, weed control expenses and labour for irrigation and inter-culture operations. A little more than one-fourth of the respondents availed the benefit in respect of fertilizers economy. In addition to this, the respondents got the benefits of better yields, better fruit size, early maturity of fruits and higher market price of the produce under drip irrigation system. 19. There was positive and significant relationship between respondents' size of family, social participation, socioeconomic status, farm power, material possession, size of land holding, area under drip irrigation system, area 'under mango orchard, annual income, economic motivation. scientific orientation, attitude towards drip irrigation system, knowledge level about drip irrigation system, contact with ex'tension agencies and utilization of information sources and their techno-economic consequences in adoption of drip irrigation system. 20. Respondents' education, socio-economic status, area under drip irrigation system, area under mango orchard, credit orientation, economic motivation, innovativeness, riskpreference, scientific orientation, attitude towards drip irrigation system, knowledge level about drip irrigation system, satisfaction with drip irrigation system, contact with extension agencies and utilization of information sources had positive and significant relationship with their innovation-decision process in relation to drip irrigation system. 21. Respondents' education, farm power, credit orientation, economic motivation, innovativeness, risk-preference, scientific orientation, attitude towards drip irrigation system, knowledge level about drip irrigation system, satisfaction with drip irrigation system, contact with extension agencies and utilization of information sources had positive and significant relationship with their extent of economic gain reaped through adoption of drip irrigation system. 22. The innovation-decision process was found to be predicted by five independent variables such as area under drip irrigation system, innovativeness, scientific orientation. knowledge level about drip irrigation system and satisfaction with drip irrigation system, which had together contributed to 51.70 per cent of the total variation in the innovation-decision process. 23. A total of nine independent variables namely farm power, material possession, area under drip irrigation system, area under mango orchard, irrigation potentiality, cropping intensity, annual income, attitude towards drip irrigation system and utilization of information sources were accounting influence on the techno-economic consequences. All the nine independent variables together affected the change in dependent variable to the extent of 73 . 39. per cent. 24. The variables like education, social participation, farm power, annual income, attitude towards drip irrigation system, knowledge level about drip irrigation system, satisfaction with drip irrigation system and utilization of information sources had together contributed to 60.84 per cent of total variation in the extent of economic gain of drip irrigation system. 25. The variable material possession had exerted the maximum positive direct effect on techno-economic consequences, followed by area under mango orchard, area under drip irrigation system and attitude towards drip irrigation system in descending order. As regards the total indirect effect, socio-economic status exhibited the highest positive total indirect effect, followed by annual income, size of land holding, area under drip irrigation system, social participation, farm power possessed and area under mango orchard in descending order. So far as the substantial indirect effect is concerned, the variable socio-economic status exerted maximum positive substantial indirect effect on techno-economic consequences. It was followed by size of land holding, area under mango orchard, social participation, annual income and area under drip irrigation system in descending order. Most of the variables included in the study had substantial positive indirect effect through material possession as evident from the results presented. This naturally suggests that the positive changes in material possession would bring the substantial changes in technoeconomic consequences. 26. The most important economic constraints faced by the mango orchard growers in adoption of drip irrigation system were : high cost of spare parts, heavy initial expanses for installation of drip irrigation system and lack of capital for covering entire area under drip irrigation system. The major technological constraints faced by the adopters in drip irrigation were : frequent clogging of drippers and microtubes, requires time to time attention for minor repairs, damage caused to the system by rodents .and jackals, lack of technical know-how, lack oi awareness among the farmers regarding benefits of drip irrigation system and difficult to keep proper water pressure. The important administrative constraints being faced by the respondents were : inadequacy and uncertainty in power supply, lack of after sale services from the company dealers, non-availability of spare parts at proper time with reasonable rates, lack of proper training, nonavailability of repairing facilities in the village, nonavailability of quality material of drip irrigation system and non-availability of technical guidance in time. The major personal and socio-psychological constraints experienced by the drip irrigation system adopter farmers were : lack of spirit among the farmers regarding drip irrigation system, frustration due to failure of drip irrigation system in work, resistance from family members and lack of motivation. 27. The major suggestions offered by the mango orchard growers to overcome the constraints associated with adoption of drip irrigation system and thereby promoting the use of drip irrigation system in sequential order were : provisions should be made to purchase drip irrigation sets directly from open market, training should be imparted along with drip irrigation sets for betterment of knowledge and skills, at least five years guarantee be provided by company agents for drip irrigation system, drip sets be supervised by company agents regularly, subsidy be paid directly to the farmers, regular guidance and free services be sought from company agents, quality material be provided for drip sets and wide publicity of drip irrigation" system be made through mass media approaches. In addition to this, the respondents also felt that the amount of subsidy on drip irrigation system be increased, propaganda about drip irrigation system, be made through shibirs and film shows and multipurpose sub-mains should be designed so as to use in different crops.