A STUDY ON THE KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION BEHAVIOUR OF TURMERIC GROWERS IN ERODE DISTRICT OF TAMIL NADU STATE
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2001-08-09
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE
Abstract
The study on knowledge and adoption behaviour of turmeric growers was
carried out during 2000 in Erode district of Tamil Nadu state. following
simple random sampling 120 farmers were selected and data were collected by
personal interview method.
The important findings of the study were; majority of the respondents
possessed medium level of knowledge (70.00%) and adoption (65.83%) about
recommended cultural practices of turmeric. Less than half of the respondents
cultivated recommended varieties (29.17%), application of fungicide (23.33%),
application of pesticide (12.50%), earthing up (10.83%) and application of potash
fertilizer (5.83%) as recommended. Majority of the respondents practiced
application of phosphatic fertilizer (84.17%), application of FYM (78.34%) and
application of potash fertilizer (59.17%) more than recommended. A considerable
percentage of the farmers were educated upto middle school. Over half of the
respondents (53.33%) were fi-om nuclear family. Majority of the respondents
(94.17%) possessed television sets. Among them a considerable percentage of
farmers regularly viewed the news (65.49%) followed by agricultural
programmes (11.50%) and general programmes (4.42%).
A fKJsitive and significant relationship was observed between level of
knowledge, adoption and socio-economic characteristics like education, land
holding and scientific orientation. The relationship of yield was positively
significant with the knowledge and adoption level of respondents.
Majority of the respondents expressed the problem of rotting of rhizome
(98.33%) and leaf blotch (79.17%). Whereas, price fluctuation (71.67%), high
cost of labour (63.33%) and scarcity of labour (60.00%) were the constraints
expressed by turmeric growers.
Majority of the respondents (62.50%) market their produce in the
regulated market followed by commission agents (32.50%) and co-operative
society (5.00%). Majority of the respondents (73.33%) collected the information
on market price from others who visited market, followed by radio (60.83%),
newspaper (55.00%) and personally visiting market (54.17%).
The benefit cost ratio in turmeric cultivation worked out to 2.12.
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