Analytical Study on Adoption of Eco-friendly Management Practices of Mango by Orchardists in Konkan Region
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2014
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MPUAT, Udaipur
Abstract
Mango ranks first in area and production among various fruit crops grown in the country. India is the largest producer of mango and Maharashtra stands eleventh in productivity i.e. 6.6 t/ha, second in area (474.50 million ha.) and seventh in production (597 million tonnes). In Konkan region, the Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts are the mango baskets of Maharashtra which contributing 84.56 per cent of area under mango cultivation.
It is very well recognized that fruits plays a vital role in environmental pollution. Fruit significantly contribute in environmental pollution due to more pest and disease attack and excess use of chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides. There is no proper and adequate documentation of eco-friendly practices of mango. Farmer has lack of information about these eco-friendly practices. Till today there is no research study was taken thoroughly on aspect of environmental pollution and eco-friendly practices of mango in the Maharashtra. Hence, keeping these facts in view it was planned to undertake study entitled ‘‘Analytical study on adoption of eco-friendly management practices of mango by orchardists in Konkan region’ was conducted to study knowledge level and to determine the extent of adoption of mango orchardists about eco-friendly management practices of mango. The study also find out association between personal attribute of mango orchardists and adoption of eco-friendly management practices. The study also knows the attitude of orchardists towards eco-friendly management practices. The constraints experienced by the mango orchardist in adoption and their the suggestions to improve the existing level of knowledge and adoption of eco-friendly management practices were also studied.
The present study was conducted in Ratangiri and Sindhudurg districts of south konkan on the basis of maximum area under mango cultivation by interviewing 200 mango orchardist (100 small and 100 big) with special designed interview
schedule. Thereafter data were analyzed, tabulated and interpretation were made in the light of the objectives.
It was observed that nearly 45 per cent mango orchardists were from middle age group and 57 per cent were educated upto ‘secondary and higher secondary’ level. Maximum number of mango orchardists (50.50 %) had moderate area under mango while 64 per cent were having medium experience in mango cultivation. More than two fifth (46 %) had ‘low’ annual income. While 74 per cent of respondents had medium yield of mango and 42.50 per cent mango orchardists had medium scientific orientation. It was further found that 79.50 per cent mango orchardists had medium level of market orientation, 77 per cent farmers had medium innovativeness and 62.50 per cent mango orchardists possessed medium information seeking behaviour group, while 73 per cent respondents fell in medium knowledge level about ill effects of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in the study area.
The study revealed that majority of the respondents (70 %) had medium level of knowledge regarding eco-friendly management practices of mango. It was also found that there was a significant difference in knowledge between small and big respondents regarding eco-friendly management practices of mango.
The findings also revealed that 75 per cent of mango orchardists possessed medium level of adoption. It was further noted that there was a significant difference in level of adoption between small and big respondents about eco-friendly management practices of mango.
It was found that personal, socio-economic and psychological and communication variables of the respondents viz. education, experience in mango, annual income, yield of mango, scientific orientation, market orientation, innovativeness, information seeking behaviour and knowledge level of ill effects of pesticides, chemical fertilizers were significantly associated with adoption of eco-friendly management practices of mango while, variables namely age and area under mango were not significantly associated with adoption of eco-friendly management practices of mango.
Majority of the respondents had favourable attitude towards eco-friendly management practices of mango and there was significant difference in attitude between small and big respondents towards eco-friendly management practices of mango.
It is found that 75.50 per cent respondents faced severe constraints in adoption of eco-friendly management practices of mango. The mango growers faced the social, economic, technological, situational, market oriented, infrastructural constraints, governmental policy and climate related constraints.
It is observed that there was no significant difference in suggestions between by small and big orchardists for improving the existing level of knowledge and adoption of eco-friendly management practices of mango.
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Analytical Study on Adoption of Eco-friendly Management Practices of Mango by Orchardists in Konkan Region
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Mahadik and Panjabi, 2014