Study on Knowledge and adopttion of farmers about hybrid rice production technology in sultanpur district of uttar pradesh
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2021-08-03
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ANDUAT,Kumarganj,Ayodhya
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Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is an important cereal food grain crop of the world with an excellent source of calories, in the form of starch, and has added benefits of providing protein with higher nutritional quality than other cereals grains. The study was conducted in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, Sultanpur district has fourteen blocks, out of these 2 blocks were purposively selected namely Motigarpur and Jaisinghpur because these two blocks are having low and high sizable area respectively under Hybrid rice production. The study was conducted in randomly selected ten villages of Motigarpur and jaisinghpur block of Sultanpur district on 150 hybrid rice growers selected through proportionate random sampling technique.
The majority of respondents were Above 53 year’s aged and literate including formal and informal education. Backward caste farmers were dominantly engaged in hybrid rice production belonging to nuclear family system in existence having 5 to 8 members in their families. Maximum hybrid rice growers were marginal farmers and reported agriculture as their main occupation. Almost all hybrid rice growers were above the poverty line. Diesel engine and Electric motor were dominant farm power along with farm implements. The cycle was main conveyance with all hybrid rice growers. The mobile phone followed by internet possessed by majority. Excellent extension contact was observed. The majority of respondents 45 percent were participate in two organizations. The majority of respondent’s main formal source of information fertilizers/seed stores, informal source of information family members and television in mass media was main source of information. The economic motivation, scientific orientation and risk-orientations were observed of medium levels.
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