A STUDY ON THE KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION BEHAVIOUR OF SUGARCANE GROWERS IN BELGAUM DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
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2001-08-09
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE
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The study was conducted in Ramdurg taluk of Belgaum district in the year 2000.All the 103 villages in taluk were arranged in discending order based on the total area under sugrance and top ten village were selected. The respondents were selected by following proprotionate random sampling from the selected villages to make the total sample size to 150. The major findings of the study were: majority (68. 00%) of the respondents prosscesed medium level of knowledge about recommended sugarcane cultivation practices, Regarding knowledge about individaul parctices, majorty had knowledge about correct planting time (98.00 %), havesting period (94.00 % ), and number of top dressing with nitrogen (86.00 %). Majority (79.00 %) of the respondents belonged to medium adoption category with respect to recommended sugarcare cultivation partices and most of the respondents adopted practices like top dressing of nitrogen (98.00 %), use of the organic fertilisers (92.00 %), spacing (81.33 %) and planting time (76.00 %) as recommended. Majority (61.33 %) of the sugarcane growers had land holding more than 25 acres. Less than ten per cent of the respondents consulted formal sources regulary. Majority of the respondents (82.00 %) processed radio and television was processed by less than half (42-66 %) of the respondents. A positive significant relationship was observed between level of knowledge and media participation and extension participation. A non- significant like age, education, land holding, annual income, mass media participation organisational participation and extension participation. More than half of the respondents expressed irregular supply of electricity for irrigation (67.33 %), high cost of chemical fertilizers (54.66 %) and delay in cutting order and payment (53.66 % ) as major problems in sugarcane cultivation. The Benefit cost radio in jaggery preparation worked out 1:1.67 and in case of sending to factory it worked to 1:2.24 .
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