Dahiya, D.S.Bhupender Singh2023-03-042023-03-042022-10-11https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810194754A survey based study was conducted during 2017 in the Department of Horticulture - Floriculture and Landscape Architecture on rose cultivation in Haryana with the objectives to assess the farmers’ knowledge and adoption level of cultivation technology, to ascertain pre-and post-harvest problems encountered by farmers in rose cultivation, to study the prospects of rose cultivation in the state and to ascertain the association between socio-personal attributes of rose farmers and knowledge and adoption of rose cultivation technology. Two districts namely, Sonepat and Hisar were selected for the study. There were 124 respondents in 15 villages. The study revealed that there was significant association observed in the knowledge level and education as the Pearson chi square coefficient χ2 =179.07 with degree of freedom of 119, at a significance of 0.0003. Education has the only the significant association with the adoption levels. The rose cultivation resulted into a gross returns of Rs. 3,07,857.10/- per ha in Hisar while the gross returns were 3,03,327.9/- per ha. The variable cost is very important aspect for continuous cultivation of a crop by the farmers. In the present study, it was quite impressive and farmers in both the district might continue to do the rose cultivation. The benefit cost ratio was recorded higher in district Sonipat (1.34) while it was recorded lower in district Hisar (1.29). It suggested that the nearness to the NCR region resulted into demand of rose cultivation and the demand leads to better prices.EnglishThesis