A STUDY ON ADOPTION OF PIGEON PEA PRODUCTION RECOMMENDATIONS IN MAHABUBNAGAR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
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1993
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ANDHRA PRADESH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
Abstract
India is the leading pigeon pea producing country
accounting for 90-95 per ce.nt of the pigeon pea ( 3 million
hectares) cropped area. The area of pigeon pea in Andhra Pradesh
is 3.46 lakh hectares, wi~ a production of 0.74 lakh tonnes and
productivity of 214 kg ha . Though the area under pigeon pea is
more we could not meet the demand of people due to low production
and productivity. This is mainly due to the fact that pigeon pea
is being mostly gxown in the traditional way by the majority of
the farmers. There is still a big gap between achievable yields
and achieved yields. Higher production could be possible only by
understanding the trends of knowledge, adoption and constraints
in the adoption of the pigeon pea production recommendations so
that the necessary technological gaps could be plugged in
desirable direction.
Duly keeping _ in view the importance of
cultivation, this study was undertaken to know the
pigeon pea production recommendations.
pigeon pea
adoption of
An ex-post facto research design was followed .
Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh was purposively selected.
Three mandals namely Kodangal, Doulatabad and Damargidda of
Mahabubnagar district were also selected purposively . A total of
120 farmers were selected randomly from twelve villages of three
selected mandals following proportionate random sampling
technique. A pre-tested interview schedule with the measurement
of selected variables was used for the collection of the required
data. The following findings were emerged out of the study.
Majority of the respondents belonged to middle age
group, primary level of education with large family size having
farming
behaviour,
scientific
high social participation, big farm size, medium
experience, nad medium level of information seeking
innovativeness, risk preference, economic motivation,
orientation and management ori entation.
Majority of the respondents had medium level of
knowledge and adoption of pigeon pea produ=t ion reco~~endations .
Correlation analysis of independent variables with
dependent variables i.e., knowledge and adoption indicated that
education, social participation, farm size, farming experience,
information seeking behaviour, innovativeness, risk preference,
economic motivation, scientific orientation and management
orientation had a positive and significant relationship. Whereas
age was non-significant with knowledge and negatively
significantly correlated with adoption. Family size was nonsignificant
with knowledge and positively significant with
adoption .
Constraints in the adoption of pigeon pea production
recommendations viz., non availability of varieties in time,
involvement of more expenditure, lack of knowledge, lack of
technical guidance, non availability of inputs in time, lack of
time, non availability of sufficient quantities of FYM, non
availability of labour in time, lack of irrigation facilities and
high cost of chemicals were expressed by majority of the partial
and non-adopters.
Provision of subsidy on different agricultural inputs
and credit facilities to the needy farmers, timely technical
guidance evolving pest and disease resistant varieties and
intensification of extension services by extension staff were
some of the suggestions offered by the farmers in overcoming the
constraints.
In the light of the above findings there is a need on
the part of extension personnel to educate and convince the
farmers to adopt all the recommended practices by way of
conducting demonstrations, training programmmes, field trips and
exhibitions etc. Inview of the constraints reported by the
farmers i.e., early maturing, drought resistant and pest and
disease resistant varieties are urgently needed . So the
researchers should take these necessary features into account .
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