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Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola

Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola was established on 20th October, 1969 with its head-quarter at Akola. This Agricultural University was named after the illustrious son of Vidarbha Dr. Panjabrao (alias Bhausaheb) Deshmukh, who was the Minister for Agriculture,Govt. of India. The jurisdiction of this university is spread over the eleven districts of Vidarbha. According to the University Act 1983 (of the Government of Maharashtra), the University is entrusted with the responsibility of agricultural education, research and extension education alongwith breeder and foundation seed programme. The University has its main campus at Akola. The instructional programmes at main campus are spread over in 5 Colleges namely, College of Agriculture, College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, College of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Post Graduate Institute. At this campus 4 degree programmes namely B.Sc.(Agri.) B.Sc. (Hort.), B.Sc. (Forestry) and B.Tech. (Ag. Engg.) , two Master’s Degree Programmes viz. M.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Tech. (Agri.Engg.) and Doctoral Degree Programmes in the faculties of Agriculture and Agril. Engineering are offered. The University has its sub-campus at Nagpur with constituent College, College of Agriculture which offers B.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Sc.(Agri.) degree programmes. The Nagpur Campus is accomplished with a garden, surrounded by its natural beauty and a well established Zoo which attract the general public and visitors to the city. A separate botanic Garden is being maintained on 22 hectares with a green house for the benefit of research workers. In addition there are 2 affiliated grant-in-aid colleges and 14 private non-grant-in-aid colleges under the umbrella of this University A Central Research Station is situated at the main Campus which caters to the need of research projects undertaken by Crop Scientists of the principle crops of the region are Cotton, Sorghum, Oilseeds and Pulses.

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Subject: Agricultural Extension Education × Author: LAXTTTIWAR, NIKHIL BAPURAO. × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2019 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES BY GRAM GROWERS
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2019-06-27) LAXTTTIWAR, NIKHIL BAPURAO.; Raut, Dr. R. S.
    The present study entitled “Knowledge and adoption of Integrated Pest Management practices by gram growers” was conducted in Pandharkawada and Zarijamani talukas of Yavatmal district of Maharashtra state with following specific objectives. 1. To study the personal, socio-economic, situational, communication and psychological characteristics of the gram growers 2. To study the knowledge and adoption of gram growers about Integrated Pest Management practices 3. To study the relationship between selected characteristics of gram growers with their knowledge and adoption about Integrated Pest Management practices 4. To identify the constraints faced by the gram growers in adoption of Integrated Pest Management practices The sample of study comprised of 120 gram growers randomly selected from six villages of each Pandharkawada and Zarijamani taluka of Yavatmal district. The salient findings of the present study revealed that more than half (56.67%) of the respondents were in the middle age group of 36 to 50 years. More than one fourth (27.50) of the respondents were educated up to high school. 55.84 per cent of the respondents were found to be in semi-medium land holding category. Nearly half (45.84%) of the respondents had annual income between Rs. 1,50,001/- to Rs. 2,25,000/-. More than half (65.00%) of the respondents were having bi-seasonal cropping pattern. More than half (55.00%) of the respondents had area under gram from up to 1.00 ha. More than one third (36.67%) of the respondents had irrigated their field from well/tube well. Great majority i.e. 71.67 per cent of the respondents had availed insurance for gram crop. 58.34 per cent of the respondents were found to be in the medium category of source of information. 60.83 per cent of the respondents were in the medium category of economic motivation. More than half (54.16%) of the respondents were in medium category of innovativeness. Majority of the respondents i.e. 55.83 per cent were included in medium category of scientific orientation. More than half i.e. 63.33 per cent of the respondents belonged to medium category of knowledge about IPM practices of gram crop. Majority of the respondents i.e. 61.67 per cent belonged to medium category of adoption about IPM practices of gram crop. The findings of correlation analysis revealed that characteristics such as education, land holding, annual income, cropping pattern, area under gram, insurance availed, source of information, economic motivation, innovativeness and scientific orientation were having positively significant with knowledge and adoption; whereas other variables like age and source of irrigation were non-significant with knowledge and adoption about IPM practices. As far as constraints in adoption of IPM practices in gram are concerned, majority (70.00%) of the respondents faced the constraint of lack of technical knowledge of IPM practices, followed by lack of proper guidance about pesticides use (55.00%), non-availability of inputs at right time (52.50%), high cost of inputs (46.67%), unavailability of labours (42.50%) and lack of media advertisement (39.17%).