A STUDY ON PERCEIVED PROBLEMS AND ATTITUDE OF PADDY FARMERS TOWARDS INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY OF BARGARH DISTRICT OF ODISHA
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2021-12
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UHF,NAUNI
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Farmers depends heavily on chemical pesticides to increase productivity, results in
pesticide residues in vegetables, fruits and grains, increased resurgence in pests. Integrated
pest management became most important criteria in pest management since 1985 which
provides better results than chemical dependence. Present study is done by three main
objectives, firstly to study socio-economic characters of respondents, secondly to study their
relation with attitude of respondents towards IPM and lastly to study the perceived problems
of farmers towards IPM practices. Study was carried out using multi stage sampling with
structured questionnaire. Study shows that Attitude of 96 percent IPM farmers was favorable
and 4 percent of IPM farmers are moderately favorable. 10 percent of Non IPM farmers are
unfavorable and 90 percent are moderately favorable. IPM farmers are concerned about
environment, yield and resource management but Non IPM farmers are more concerned
about yield as per the statements used to analyze the attitude towards IPM. The study shows
that majority of IPM farmers perceive that IPM practices require more labour and time but
remaining problems seems to be less affected for them. All Non IPM farmers perceived that
IPM practices require more labor and time.