Bhalla, Jaswinder SinghSavtinder Kaur2017-08-212017-08-212017http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810029157The present study was conducted to determine the adoption of PAU recommended varieties of wheat and paddy in Ludhiana district of Punjab. There were twelve blocks in the district. Out of twelve blocks, four blocks were selected randomly, and then three villages from each block were selected randomly. A list of farmers in each 12 villages (who were growing wheat and rice for last 5 years) was prepared and then from this list, 15 farmers from each village were selected randomly. Thus, the sample comprised of 180 farmers from all 12 villages. The data was collected through interview schedule by personal interview. It was observed 47.78 per cent of the respondents belonged to middle age category, were educated and had semi medium operational land holding. Cent per cent were aware of PAU recommended variety of Paddy i.e. PR111 and unrecommended variety Pusa 44 respectively. Cent per cent were aware of recommended HD 2967 variety of wheat. Majority of the farmers adopted Pusa 44 variety of paddy but it is unrecommended by PAU. The extent of adoption was high in case of HD 2967. Most of the farmers gave the reason of high yield of HD 2967, HD 3086 for adoption of wheat varieties. Most of the farmers suggested to release high yielding varieties of paddy.ennullThesis