Adoption of Guava Cultivation Technologies by Rural Women of Chittorgarh District, Rajasthan
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Date
2014
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MPUAT, Udaipur
Abstract
The present study was undertaken with the objectives to find out the
knowledge and extent of adoption of guava cultivation technologies by the rural
women and to explore the constraints in adoption of guava cultivation technologies.
The study was conducted in four villages namely Swaroop ji ki khedi,
Vamanheda, Kharnai and Dhagad mau khurd of Begun and Bhaisrodgarh panchayat
samities of Chittorgarh district. The total sample of the study consisted of 100 rural
women. Data were collected by personal interview technique using interview
schedule developed for the purpose. Frequency, percentage and Mean Per Cent
Scores were calculated for data analysis.
The result of the study revealed that the respondents had average knowledge
about guava cultivation technologies with overall 51.58 MPS. Majority (96%) of the
respondents were in the category of average knowledge and 4 per cent of them were
in good knowledge category. With regard to component wise knowledge of the
respondents good knowledge was found in plant propagation, intercropping, land
preparation and pit digging, improved seed variety, mulching, irrigation management
and agro climatic condition and soil and average to poor knowledge was found in
plantation, manure and fertilizers application, training and pruning and plant
protection measures.
The results of the study indicated that respondents had medium level adoption
of guava cultivation technologies with overall 37.81 MPS. More than half of the
respondents (55%) were in medium level category of adoption and 45 per cent of
them fell in the low level of adoption category. Component wise extent of adoption,
high adoption was found in technologies related to improved seed variety,
intercropping, plant propagation, harvesting and land preparation and pit digging and
medium to low level of adoption was found in plant protection measures, manure and
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fertilizers application, training and pruning, mulching, irrigation management and
plantation.
High mortality rate of plants during initial stage, lack of storage facility, high
post-harvest losses, threats from wild and stray animals, long vegetative period,
disease sensitivity, fluctuation in market price, lack of preservation industry and
technically know-how were the major constraints faced by the rural women in
adoption of guava cultivation technologies.
Overall view of the results shows that rural women possessed average to good
knowledge about guava cultivation technologies but the adoption level of these
technologies was found to be low as compared to their knowledge. The reasons
might be that high cost of planting materials, insecticides and pesticides, disease
sensitivity, fluctuation in market prices, lack of transportation facility and high
mortality of plants during initial stage. Thus it is suggested that efforts should be
made to motivate rural women for adoption of guava cultivation technologies
through skill oriented training programs and exposure visits at different institution
involved in TOT.
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Adoption of Guava Cultivation Technologies by Rural Women of Chittorgarh District, Rajasthan
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Citation
Bhati and Godawat, 2015