The present study to assess the technology adoption behaviour of farmers of different land based enterprises under diversified farming system was conducted in Sonitpur district of Assam, India. A sample size of 135 farmer respondents was drawn from three Agricultural Sub-Divisions of the district by using proportionate random sampling technique. The study shows that among the socio-economic variables under study, except age, other variables namely; education, extension contact and annual income were found having positively significant correlation with technology adoption of all the selected enterprises, while the variable operational land holding had shown positive and significant relation with rice cultivation and dairy farming. The study further reveals that economic motivation and innovation proneness were the two psychological variables which had positive and significant correlation with technology adoption of all selected four enterprises. While variables-risk orientation, decision making ability and attitude towards farm diversification of the respondents had positively significant association with technology adoption of dairy and fishery, fishery and rice, vegetable and fishery respectively under diversified farming system.

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This study, to analyse the extent of adoption of improved fish farming practices by the farmers, was conducted in 13 purposively selected districts having Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) in the north-eastern region of India with 130 samples each from KVK adopted and non-adopted villages respectively through proportionate random sampling technique. Data from selected respondents were collected with the help of pre-tested structured schedule through personal interview method. The study revealed that majority of the respondents in KVK adopted villages had medium level of adoption of improved fish farming practices, while over half of the total respondents in non-adopted villages showed poor adoption level of the same fish farming practices. Specific practices like recommended size of ponds for pond management, bottom raking for pond preparation and maintenance of adequate dissolved oxygen concentrations in ponds to prevent fish stress were found to have little/no adoption among both categories of respondents.

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