Adoption of Integrated Pest Management in Chickpea Production in Kota District of Rajasthan

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dc.contributor.advisorSharma, V. P.
dc.contributor.authorGoyal, M. C.
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-25T11:14:52Z
dc.date.available2017-04-25T11:14:52Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.descriptionAdoption of Integrated Pest Management in Chickpea Production in Kota District of Rajasthanen_US
dc.description.abstractChickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the important rabi pulse and alternative crop for diversification but the productivity of Chickpea is low due to various reasons particularly incidence of diseases and insect pests causing substantial yield reduction. Farmers follow mainly the chemical pesticidal approach under plant protection system to suppress these pests which is often uneconomical and leads to pesticide resistance problem as observed in Helicoverpa armigera (gram pod borer). Besides, it disturbs ecological balance and leads to environmental pollution resulting in to human health hazards. A holistic approach is needed to combat these pest and other problems effectively in a sustainable manner. Integrated Pest Management is one of such systematic approach which emphasizes not only the reduction in use of pesticides and keeping below the level of pest causing economic injury but also it facilitates the use of cultural, mechanical, botanical, biological and chemical methods of control in an integrated manner and restores ecological balance for sustainable agriculture. It, thus, imply that the farmers needs to learn the principles of IPM and acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to make self decision based on specific farm condition and discourages the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Despite this background and vast scope of IPM along with several efforts and advances done by government towards promoting IPM technology among farming community for Chickpea production in Kota district of Rajasthan, no systematic research from agricultural extension education point of view on this aspect of plant protection has been conducted in the past. Therefore, keeping all in this mind, the present investigation entitled “Adoption of Integrated Pest Management in Chickpea Production in Kota District of Rajasthan” was carried out to assess the present status of adoption and future prospects of IPM in Chickpea production with the following specific objectives: 1. To study information input and its processing behaviour of chickpea growers. 2. To find out the existing knowledge of farmers about recommended practices of Integrated Pest Management in Chickpea. 3. To find out extent of adoption of recommended practices of pest management by chickpea growers. 4. To study the constraints as perceived by the chickpea growers in adoption of Integrated Pest Management practices. 5. To assess the training needs of chickpea growers with regards to Integrated Pest Management. 6. To suggest suitable extension strategy for effective transfer of technology for Integrated Pest Management in chickpea. The present study was conducted in purposively selected Kota district of Rajasthan. The proposed district consisted of five panchayat samities, among from them, three panchayat samities were selected randomly. Five villages from each selected panchayat samiti were selected through random sampling technique, among from those villages, where farmers were benefited through various IPM promotional schemes in chickpea crop. Thus 15 villages were included in the study. For selection of respondents, 15 beneficiary farmers from each identified village were selected randomly. Thus total sample size comprised of 225 respondents for the present investigation. A research tool was specifically developed and standardized keeping in view the objectives of study. Data on that structured tool were collected personally from respondents through face to face technique of interview. To arrive at the specific inferences, various statistical measures viz., frequency, percentage, mean score, mean percent score, standard deviation, analysis of variance, critical difference, standard error of mean, coefficient of variation were used. Major findings of the study are as follow: 1. It was found that majority of the respondents were of middle age with good educational qualifications. Most of them belonged to other backward castes and had nuclear family. Majority of them had big size of land holdings. 2. Personal localite sources of information were the most consulted sources for availing information by sampled chickpea growers followed by impersonal cosmopolite and personal cosmopolite sources. 3. Overall intensity for information processing behaviour of the chickpea growers was 69.12 per cent. Judgment based on weigh keeping with relative advantages and informal discussion in group meeting were most widely used criteria for putting information to use. 4. Overall knowledge level of the respondent farmers was found 67.38 per cent regarding recommended practices of IPM in chickpea. They possessed maximum knowledge with respect to chemical pesticidal practices and minimum knowledge about botanical pesticidal practices. 5. Overall adoption level of the farmers was found 48.43 per cent towards the recommended practices of IPM. Maximum and minimum adoption was found towards cultural practices and botanical pesticidal practices respectively. 6. Overall intensity of severity of constraints in adopting IPM practices confronted by chickpea growers was 58.08 per cent. General constraints came to be the most severe constraints followed by the constraints related to identification of pests and their monitoring through ETL. Whereas, the least perceived constraints were related to cultural practices of IPM. 7. It was found that most needed areas of training related to IPM by chickpea growers were preparation and application of neem based botanical pesticides followed by ETL assessment, cost benefit ratio of IPM v/s non-IPM crop, conceptual frame work of IPM and pest surveillance. 8. To suggest suitable extension strategy for effective transfer of IPM technology in chickpea, it is recommended that there is a need of concerted efforts by different extension and developmental agencies involved in TOT to promote the IPM practices among the farming community and equip them with the latest knowledge of it through different extension methods with a view to motivate them for accelerating the adoption of IPM in chickpea. Besides, the suggested strategy includes promotion of the people’s participation, awareness generation through different media and extension methods, organization of training programmes, demonstration and field visits for farmers and extension functionaries, involvement of NGOs and pesticide industry, promotion of the women’s involvement of local organizations, exploration of indigenous practices and; use of information technology in IPM.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGoyal and Sharma, 2006en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810010084
dc.keywordsAdoption, Integrated Pest Management, Chickpea, Productionen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.pages159en_US
dc.publisherMPUAT, Udaipuren_US
dc.research.problemAdoption of Integrated Pest Management in Chickpea Production in Kota District of Rajasthanen_US
dc.subExtension Educationen_US
dc.subjectnullen_US
dc.themeAdoption of Integrated Pest Management in Chickpea Production in Kota District of Rajasthanen_US
dc.these.typePh.Den_US
dc.titleAdoption of Integrated Pest Management in Chickpea Production in Kota District of Rajasthanen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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