Extent of adoption of Protected Cultivation Technology among the trained farmers of North Bihar
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2016
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur)
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“protected cultivation ” means modification of the plant environment to achieve optimum plant growth and maximum production by avoiding the harmful effect of climatic factors like tempreture, humidity, rainfall, etc (P.R.Bhatnagar,2012). It is one of the special agriculture where high input (land, water, seeds and chemicals) use efficiency on account of better protection against abiotic and biotic stress is obtained besides off season production. Protected cultivation though has variety of agriculture application but mainly it is being considered for the production of horticulture crops like vegetables and ornamental flower. It is estimated that small area approximately fifty thousand hectares is under protected cultivation in India.
Protected cultivation of high value vegetables and cut-flowers has shown tremendous potential during the last decade or so. With the progress of liberalized economy and the advent of newer technologies in agriculture, protected cultivation opens up avenues in agriculture hitherto not seen. These technologies are not only creating avenues at higher level but also to the growers with the smaller landholdings as the higher productivity levels retain economic relevance to agriculture. Protected cultivation is in a way precise, progressive and parallel agriculture encompassing virtually all facets of agriculture and rather under additional scrutiny of technical relevance to situations and grower and market economics.
The analysis reveals that that most of the trained farmers belonged to middle age group (50 percent), UR category (50 percent), farming alone 45(percent), literate up to graduation and above (60 percent), small family (60 percent), member of one organization (45 percent), medium level of Risk orientation (65 per cent), medium entrepreneurial motivation (60 percent), medium knowledge level (55 percent) . Some of the independent variables such as attitude and source of information utilized were found to be statistically significant.
The result of the study revealed that extent of crop diversification extent of Crop diversification is higher among trained respondents as compared to untrained respondents. The adoption level is also higher among trained respondents as compared to untrained respondents. Hence it is clear that trained farmers have great benefits of training. Protected cultivation training had been successful and had significant impact on protected cultivators. Farmers were able to enhance their level of motivation, tackle the constraints and maintain profitability and sustainability. Hence training is very important to adopt the new technology of protected cultivation.
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