KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF FARMERS ABOUT CHICKPEA PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY IN JUNAGADH DISTRICT 2799
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2019-06
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JAU, JUNAGADH
Abstract
The area under the cultivation of chickpea is increasing every year as it is one
of the most important pulse crops of India due to its qualitative as well as quantitative
importance. However, its average yield on farmer’s field is low than its potential yield
on research station. The main reason for low production is lack of knowledge and
adoption of improved or recommended chickpea production technology. Therefore, it
was worthwhile to study entitled “Knowledge and Adoption of Farmers about
Chickpea Production Technology in Junagadh District”. This study was carried out
with specific objectives: to study the personal, socio-economic, communicational,
psychological and situational characteristics of chickpea growers as well as to study
the extent of knowledge and adoption of them about recommended chickpea
production technology, to study the association between chickpea growers’
knowledge and adoption about chickpea production technology with their selected
characteristics, to find out constraints and seek suggestion from the respondents to
overcome constraints faced by them.
A study was conducted in Junagadh district of Gujarat state. In order to realize
the objectives of the study, 4 talukas were selected purposively for the study where
areas of cultivation of chickpea were higher as well as familiar area for researcher. 3
villages from each talukas were selected randomly and 10 respondents from each
selected villages were selected randomly as sample. Hence, total 120 chickpea
growers were studied. The data were collected by personal interview method. The
data so collected were coded, classified and tabulated analyzed in order to make
meaning conclusions.
The result of the study revealed that more than half (53.33 per cent) of the
chickpea growers were in middle aged, 43.33 per cent were educated up to middle
school or secondary school level; whereas majority of the respondents had medium
farm experience (60.00 per cent), medium social participation (70.00 per cent),
medium size of land holding (46.67 per cent), medium annual income (38.33 per
cent), medium extension participation (61.67 per cent), medium mass media exposure
(62.50 per cent), medium innovativeness (65.84 per cent), medium scientific ii
orientation (54.17 per cent), medium risk orientation (57.50 per cent), medium
irrigation potentiality (47.50 per cent), medium cropping intensity (50.83 per cent)
and medium yield index (54.17 per cent).
Majority (71.67 per cent) of the respondents had medium knowledge level,
followed by 15.83 per cent and 12.50 per cent of the respondents had high and low
knowledge level, respectively. Majority (64.14 per cent) of the respondents had
medium level of adoption, followed by 21.67 and 14.16 per cent of respondents had
low and high level of adoption about recommended chickpea production technology.
The data on practice wise adoption revealed that the level of adoption was
found highest in practice like preparation of land and it secured rank 1st, followed by
spacing (rank II), time of sowing (rank III), weeding and inter culturing (rank IV),
seed rate (rank V), harvesting (rank VI), storage (rank VII), seed treatment (rank
VIII), chemical fertilizer application (rank IX), irrigation (rank X), improved variety
(rank XI), disease control (rank XII), pest control (rank XIII), bio fertilizers (rank
XIV) and micronutrients and plant growth regulators (rank XV).
Out of fourteen independent variables, extension participation and yield index
had positive and highly significant association, whereas education, farm experience,
social participation, annual income, mass media exposure, innovativeness, scientific
orientation, risk orientation, irrigation potentiality and cropping intensity had positive
and significant association, while age and size of land holding had positive and non significant association with knowledge as well as adoption of farmers about chickpea
production technology.
Major constraints faced by respondents were; high cost of farm inputs, non availability of appropriate market price on farm produce, low production due to pest
and disease infection, high cost of labor ,lack of appropriate knowledge about
improved varieties and destruction of seedbed by hazardous animals.
Major suggestions offered by respondents were; production inputs should be
supplied at subsidize rate, produced should be purchased by government at reasonable
price, provide technical knowledge about insecticide, fungicide and weedicide, water
harvesting projects should be developed and more numbers of training program
should be arranged at village level.