Adoption gap in groundnut production in northern transition zone of karnataka
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2010
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UAS, Dharwad
Abstract
A study on adoption gap in groundnut production in Northern Transition Zone was
carried out during the year 2009-2010. Thirty demonstrator farmers and sixty fellow farmers
formed the sample for the study. The data was elicited through the personal interview
method.
The overall adoption gap for demonstrator farmers was to the tune of
41.55 per cent and for the fellow farmers it was 79.90 per cent. The yield gap on the
demonstration fields was 23.96 per cent while it was 59.15 per cent between demonstrator
and farmers fields. Both the adoption and yield gaps were found to be significantly different
between the demonstrator and fellow farmers. Cent per cent of the demonstrator farmers had
not adopted recommended Copper Sulphate application. All the fellow farmers had not
adopted recommended practices such as application of rhizobium, phosphorus solubilising
bacteria, lime sulphate and copper sulphate, control of pest (Spodoptera) and diseases like
damping off, fungal neck rot and leaf spot.
Education, farming experience, extension contact, mass media utilization,
cosmopoliteness, cropping intensity and innovative proneness were negatively and
significantly related to adoption gap of demonstrator as well as fellow farmers while age was
positively and significantly related to their adoption gaps. Landholding had significant
relationship with the adoption gap of fellow farmers. All the independent variables explained
91.90 per cent and 79.20 per cent of variation in the adoption gaps for the demonstrator and
fellow farmers respectively.
High cost of chemicals and fertilizers (96.67%) and price fluctuation (86.67%) were
the major constraints in adoption of recommended cultivation practices of groundnut
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Agricultural Extension Education