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SUMMARY :The present study was conducted in Nanded district of Marathwada region of Maharashtra State with an objective to study the constraints faced by banana growers in adoption of banana production technology and obtained their suggestions to overcome these constraints. The data were collected with the help of interview schedule. The result of the study depicted that majority of the banana growers faced the constraints of load shedding of electricity during irrigation, followed by non-availability of suckers at the time of planting, high cost of wages for preparatory tillage operations, high cost of FYM or compost and chemical fertilizers and poor quality of suckers for planting. The data regarding suggestions of the respondents given to overcome the constraints faced by them in adoption of banana production technology revealed that information regarding irrigation should be given in time by extension agencies, followed by tissue culture plants should be made available in sufficient quantity, government should provide NADEP and vermicompost unit and pesticide should be provided at low cost, message alerts through SMS about insect, pest and control measures should be given to farmers in time, good quality sucker should be supplied to farmers in time and reducing the cost of fertilizer were the major suggestions.

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The present study was undertaken to examine the content of SAU's websites in Maharashtra and compare with each other on the basis of ICAR guidelines and to appraise webometrics of the SAUs websites. The result of the study showed that general information such as about institute, how to reach, organizational setup, regional stations, AICRPs project were available on all SAU's websites. All SAU's websites have web objects about academic programme, admission, academic rules and regulation, student welfare. The study indicated that all the websites of SAU's have web objects about ongoing projects, research achievement and varieties developed. Agro advisory and help line available on every websites of SAU's. Information about books, periodicals, journals and online/offline literature database is provided in separate internal links of library webpage of all the SAUs. Web object about tenders and photo gallery and RTI act information were mentioned on the websites of all SAU's. Webometric analysis of SAUs websites showed that website of Dr.

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