KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF FARM MECHANISATION AMONG PADDY GROWERS IN RAICHUR DISTRICT
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2018-08-01
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University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore
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Farm mechanization became part and parcel of the current agriculture due to non-availability of man powers and need of timely operations. Hence a study was conducted in Raichur district to assess the knowledge level and adoption of farm mechanization among paddy growers, which is coming under Tungabhadra command area. The results of the study revealed that, nearly half (45.00 %) of the respondents possessed medium level of knowledge about the farm mechanization in paddy since, mechanization is slowly increasing in this region. Further, it indicates the similar trends with respect to adoption level, also accordingly 42.50 per cent of respondents belong to medium category of adoption. It is due to the fact that the farm mechanization in paddy cultivation becomes inevitable, hence gradually increasing in the study area. Further results shows that majority of the paddy growers adopted the basic and most required implements viz., cultivator, mouldboard plough, puddler, harrow etc., since these are very essential and easily available in custom hiring centers. From the findings of the study it can be concluded that still there is wide scope for the development departments and extension agencies to intervene and enhance the knowledge and adoption level of farmers in farm mechanization by carrying out different extension activities like training, demonstrations, exposure visits etc., to facilitate farmers to use more machineries in farming so as to reduce the cost of cultivation and enhance the income.