India with varied climatic and soil is natural home of spices. Spices may be defined as one of the very strongly flavored or aromatic substances of vegetable origin obtained from tropical or other plants. Among all the minor spices grown, fennel (Foeniculum vulgare P. Miller) locally known as "Variyali" is one of the important spices crop. The share of Banaskantha district in spice production is 12.24 per cent and in fennel production is 8.38 per cent in Gujarat. Thus, Banaskantha district was selected purposively. Two tribal dominating talukas viz; Amirgadh and Danta were selected purposively. Ten villages were selected randomly from each taluka having area covered under fennel cultivation. Thus, total twenty villages were selected. From each selected village, six respondents were selected randomly making a sample of 120 respondents. Ex-post facto research design was followed for carrying out the study. The independent variables studied viz., education and economic motivation had negative and significant correlation with overall technological gap of tribal fennel growers, whereas, variable viz., age of the tribal fennel growers had positive and significant correlation with overall technological gap. The two variables viz., social participation and size of family had positive and non-significant correlation with overall technological gap of fennel growers. Two variables viz., size of land holding and extension participation had negative and non-significant relationship with the overall technological gap in fennel production technology. The variable exhibited negative and highly significant correlation with overall technological gap of fennel growers, were: annual income, source of information and scientific orientation.
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