CROP MANAGEMENT PRACTICES OF VEGETABLE GROWERS IN DAPOLI TAHSIL OF RATNAGIRI DISTRICT
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2019
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dbskkv., Dapoli
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The study was conducted in Dapoli tahsil of Ratnagiri district of Konkan region. The sample constituted of 100 vegetable growing farmers from 10 villages. The respondents were interviewed with the help of specially designed schedule.
Majority of the vegetable growers belonged to middle age (69.00 per cent), had Pre-primary level of education (31.00 per cent), marginal land holding (51.00 per cent), medium family size (51.00 per cent), farming as their main occupation (82.00 per cent), small area under vegetable cultivation (55.00 per cent), medium annual income (73.00 per cent),medium experience in vegetable cultivation (68.00 per cent), mediummarketorientation (55.00 per cent), medium mass media exposure (59.00 per cent) and medium change proneness (57.00 per cent).
During this study, it is observed that majority of vegetable growers had preferred crops like brinjal, bitter gourd and amaranthus.
Majority of growers except bitter gourd growers had used improved varieties and used seed rate more than university recommendation. Considerable proportion of the vegetable growers had raised seedlings of vegetables on their own farm. Majority of the respondents had reported incidence of pests and diseases on their crops and had adopted control measures.
The study revealed that seeds are expensive and in some cases seeds of poor quality were the major problems(54.00 per cent), followed by lack of inputs i.e. seed material, fertilizer, implements etc. (46.00 per cent) and fluctuation in market price (45.00 per cent) were the major constraints.Wage rates need to be decided by Village Panchayat (73.00 per cent) and providing subsidies for fertilizers and purchasing implements (67.00 per cent) were the major suggestions reported from study area.
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