A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF PLANT PROTECTION MEASURES BY THE PADDY AND COTTON GROWERS IN KARIMNAGAR DISTRICT OF TELANGANA STATE
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2019-08-02
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BANGALORE
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The study was conducted in Karimnagar district of Telangana State during 2018-
19 to Study farmers Knowledge and Adoption of Plant Protection Measures by The Paddy
and Cotton growers. Sixty each paddy and cotton growers were selected by using simple
random technique. Thus, making a total sample size of 120. The data was collected through
personal interview method. The findings revealed that, 45.00 per cent of the paddy growers
come under medium knowledge category followed by high (30.00 %) and low (25.00 %)
categories. Further, 30.00 percent of the cotton growers had medium knowledge. Whereas,
equal percentage (35.00 %) of respondents come under high and low knowledge categories.
The data revealed that majority of the (43.33 %) paddy growers belonged to medium
adoption category followed by 33.33 and 23.33 per cent of them belonged to low and high
adoption categories, with respect to plat protection measures. In case of cotton crop, 43.33
per cent of the cotton growers come under low level adoption category, whereas 30.00 and
26.66 per cent of the cotton growers belonged to medium and high level adoption
categories. Major constraints faced with respect to Plant Protection Measures in Paddy and
Cotton were, lack of knowledge about PPM, high cost of equipments and chemicals, lack
of custom hiring facilities.
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