SUMMARY :In research study conducted on mango growers in Kokan region of Maharashtra state with the major objectives of measuring the socio-economic characteristics and knowledge level of mango growers on plant protection measures. It was observed that the more than half (52.50 %) of the respondents were in middle age group, having (65.00 %) secondary to higher secondary level of education and medium size of land holding (61.66 %). More than half of the (57.50 %) of the respondents possessed 2 to 10.9 ha. of land under mango cultivation, medium size of family (54.16 %), having low to medium level of income (79.16 %) and medium level of experience in mango cultivation (77.50 %). Nearly three fourth (70.00 %) of the respondents had medium social participation, majority of respondents i.e. 71.66 per cent had medium level of mass media exposure, nearly two third (67.50 %) of the respondents had medium level risk orientation, majority of them had (84.16 %) good level of change proneness and majority of respondent had medium level of achievement motivation and economic motivation (64.16 % and 37.50 %), respectively. The majority of mango growers (65.83 %) had 'medium' level of knowledge about plant protective measures indicating need for training in this aspect of cultivation.How to cite this article : Gondkar, S.S., Joshi, Vister, Varpe, Santosh and Chaudhari, Pooja (2017). Socioeconomic characteristics and knowledge level of mango growers on plant protection measures in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra.

The study aimed at understanding the constraints of banana growers regarding production. The study was conducted in Wardha district in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state being more concentration of banana cultivation in this district (230 ha). From this district, two tahasil, were purposively selected on the basis of large area under banana production. From these tahasil six villages of banana growers and from each village 15 banana growers were selected for this study. The frequency and percentage of each constraint were worked out to measure the constraint encountered by the respondents. Constraints faced by majority of the respondents were non-availability of electricity in time, losses due to high temperature, fertilizer cost, labour efficiency and other constraints faced by banana growers like lacunae in government policies, subsidies for the banana suckers.