A STUDY ON THE ADOPTION OF RECOMMENDED WHEAT TECHNOLOGY IN HISAR DISTRICT OF HARYANA STATE
Loading...
Date
1988
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
AAU, Anand
Abstract
Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops of our country. But, inspite of our best efforts in transfer of fast emerging wheat cultivation technology in simple and understandable forms to the rural farmers, there has been a vast untapped production reservoir in our farming system at current level of technology. This is only due to the fact that there still exists a wide gap between the available production technology and its adoption by the farmers. Hence, the present study entitled "A study on the adoption of recommended wheat technology in Hisar district of Haryana State" was conducted to know the factors affecting the adoption of wheat cultivation technology. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1. To study the personal and socio-economic characteristics of the adopter farmers. 2. To find out the level of knowledge regarding recommended v;heat production technology. 3. To know; the sources of information utilized by the wheat cultivators. 4. To determine the extent of adoption of the recommended wheat production technology. 5. To study the relationship between personal and socioeconomic characteristics of wheat cultivators and their extent of adoption of recommended wheat production technology. 6. To study the constraints in adoption of recommended technology for wheat cultivation. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The present study was conducted in Hisar Sub-division of Hisar district of Haryana State. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select a sample for the study. Thus, total 150 respondents were randomly selected from 10 purposively selected villages of the said sub-division of Hisar district. Keeping in view the objectives of study, the interview schedule was prepared and necessary modifications and arrangement of questions were made after pre-testing. Desired data were collected with the help of personal interview schedule. A teacher made scale was used to measure the level of knowledge of the respondents regarding wheat cultivation technology. While, the extent of addition was measured with the help of adoption scale developed by Sengupta (1967), dt simple ranking technique was applied to measure the sources of information utilized and main constraints in adoption of v/heat 2 cultivation technology. Chi-square (X2) test was applied to know the relationship between independent and dependent variables MAJOR FINDINGS 1. Near about half (49.33 per cent) of the respondents were from middle age group. 2. A little more than fifty per cent of respondents (54.00 per cent) had education upto primary and secondary levels. 3. Majority of the respondents (60.00 per cent) had farming experience of above 20 years. 4. Majority of the respondents had nuclear and large sized family. 5. Nearly about half (49.33 per cent) of the respondents were members in one organisation. 6. Majority of the respondents had medium extension contact. 7. Majority of the respondents had land holding above 10 acres 6. A little more than forty per cent of the respondents had annual income above Rs. 20,000/-. 9. Majority of the respondents (70.67 per cent) had farming only as their main occupation. 10. About two thirds of the respondents had medium level of knowledge. 11. Village Level worker/Agricultural Development Officer, neighbours, radio, friends. Circle Agricultural Officer, relatives. Sub-divisional Agricultural Officer were the maximum sources of information utilized. 12. A little more than three fifth of the respondents had medium level of adoption 13. Among different personal and socio-economic characteristics, age, education, farming experience, extension contact, land holding, annual income and occupation were found significantly associated with the extent of adoption. 14. Knowledge level of the wheat cultivators was found significantly associated with the extent of adoption. 15. Main constraints in adoption of recommended wheat technology were irregular supply of canal water, uncertain weather condition, short supply of electricity, low price of produce, lack of storage facility, lack of technical guidance for seed treatment, lack of knowledge regarding application of chemical fertilizer and lack of technical guidance for the application of weedicides.
Description
Keywords
Extension Education, Agriculture, A STUDY