A study was carried out in 2020 to assess the scenario of the improved production technologies among rice growers in Kanchanpur and to identify the factors influencing the adoption of these technologies. The simple random sampling procedure was used to collect data from 90 respondents using a semi-structured interview schedule from Belauri, Bhimdutta municipality, and Beldandi rural municipality which are under the command area of the rice super zone, Kanchanpur. The information on prevailing cultural practice, production, and productivity, adoption of improved technology, problems/constraints faced by farmers in rice cultivation in the study area were collected from the farmers by interview. The data were processed, cleaned, and analyzed using software MS-excel and SPSS. The simple descriptive and inferential statistics like chi-square and binary logistic regression models were used to find the relationship between dependent and independent variables. Respondents adopted plant protection measures (chemical weed control, insects, and disease control) and seed treatment relatively less than they adopted recommended variety, Seed Replacement Rate (SRR), and storage treatment.  The majority of the respondents were affiliated with the farmers’ groups but the majority of them had not received training. Furthermore, spade, hoe, tractor, thresher, sickle, wooden plough bullock cart water pumps, tillers, reapers were used by respondents. Binary logistic regression revealed that membership of agriculture group, advice from agriculture technician, training, visit of extension workers and rice cultivated land had a positive and significant effect on the adoption of various production practices. Inadequate availability of fertilizers and inputs (0.85), Inadequate training (0.68), inadequate machinery availability (0.54) were the major constraints faced by the farmers on rice cultivation.

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A seed is the most important input to increase wheat production. A seed is the biological basis of the world food security and, directly or indirectly supports the livelihood of every person on earth.  To improve the productivity of wheat seed, it is important to adopt improved seed production technologies. Thus, the presented study was conducted with help of a well-structured questionnaire to assess the socio-demographic characteristics, economic status of producers, land &livestock holding, access to different agricultural services, drivers of seed production, market status and marketing of wheat seed, availability of different inputs, and constraints faced by seed producers during production as well as marketing. 60 formal and informal wheat seed producers were included in the survey. It was observed that the majority of wheat seed producers lacked services such as field inspection, roguing, cleaning, and processing. So, they do not acquire the best possible return from seed production. The number of middlemen involved in marketing of wheat seed is high, thus reducing price received by the farmers for their product. Due to lack of quality input, erratic rainfall, lack of technical support, lack of access to the market, the wheat seed production has not been carried out at its full potential in the study region. Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 8, Issue-1: 299-305