A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF RECOMMENDED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES OF GROUNDNUT GROWERS IN BAGALKOTE DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
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2023-01-30
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University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore
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The study was conducted in the Bagalkote district of Karnataka during the year 2021-2022 by keeping the productivity of groundnut as a criterion. In the Bagalkote district, Badami, Bilagi, and Bagalkote taluks were purposively selected considering the area under groundnut. Further, from each taluk 40 groundnut growers were selected randomly making a total sample of 120, and data was collected through a personal interview schedule. It was observed from the results that more than half (54.17 %) and nearly half (49.16 %) of the groundnut growers fell under the medium level of knowledge and adoption respectively, regarding recommended production technologies of groundnut. Education, annual income, farming experience, achievement motivation, risk orientation, management orientation, economic motivation, cosmopolites, innovative proneness, scientific orientation, extension contact, extension participation, and mass media exposure were significantly related to their knowledge and adoption levels of the groundnut growers respectively. The majority of the groundnut growers got price information from friends, relatives, neighbors, and middlemen. More than half of the groundnut growers followed storage and sold their produce on spot to the local market by using tractors. Groundnut growers process a medium-level yield gap (35.83 %) and a cost-benefit ratio of 1.48. The majority of groundnut growers encountered the production constraints such as the high cost of seeds and lack of awareness about nutrient management. Regarding marketing constraints, all the respondents faced fluctuations in market prices. Major suggestions of groundnut growers are the availability of inputs on time, timely crop loan at a lower interest rate, provision of crop insurance, and good Minimum Support Price (MSP).