Kathpalia, JateshSharma, Tanvi2022-03-252022-03-252020-08https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810183817Cotton is the most important commercial crop of India contributing up to 75 percent of total raw material needed by textile industry and provides employment to about 60 million people. The study was conducted in Jind district of Haryana state. A total sample of 120 respondents was chosen from four villages of two blocks namely Jind and Alewa i.e. a sample of 30 respondents from each village was selected. In this study, the knowledge and adoption level of growing Bt. cotton among farmers, factors affecting level of knowledge and adoption and the socio-economic impact on Bt. cotton growers was assessed. Most of the respondents were belonging to 35-50 years of age group and were educated up to secondary level. It was revealed that respondents were having yield of Bt. cotton per ha. up to 8 q and 8.1-16 q with 46.67 percent and 49.17 percent respectively. Majority of them were having profit of Rs. 1,000-20,000 and were having low knowledge level with medium adoption level. There was positive and favourable attitude towards environmental aspects, economic aspects, social and technological aspects. Respondents had received a positive socio-economic impact on expenditure on education and social ceremonies, mass media exposure, quality of health services and yield. It was found that there was a positive correlation of age, education, size of land holding, annual income, subsidiary occupation of the family and mass media exposure with knowledge. And there was also positive correlation of size of land holding, annual income, mass media exposure and negative of subsidiary occupation of the family with adoption level. Lack of agriculture labour, high cost of seed, non-availability of inputs at village level, lack of irrigation facilities and low prices of farm production after harvesting time were found to be among the growers. Although Bt. cotton growing is beneficial for the farmers so it should be expanded among the cotton growers in order to get higher yield and benefits.EnglishThesis