Extent of Adoption of Farmers about Bt Cotton Practices  in Warangal District of Telangana State, India

Kumar, Prasad; Dhorey, R.K.

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2017.611.097

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“…Logically, a farmer with more extension contacts will have more adoption of agricultural innovations. The results were in conformity with Rajput and Umesh [13], Kumar & Dhorey [2] and Chendrashekhar et al [16].…”

Section: Relationship Between the Socioeconomic Characteristics And Esupporting

confidence: 92%

“…It was observed from the Table 1 that, majority of the farmers (70.00%) fell under medium category of adoption followed by high (17.50%) and low (12.50%) categories. The same results were reported by Mali [12], Rajput et al [13] and Kumar and Dhorey [2]. The probable reason for the above result, the farmers are adopting the recommended practices but there is a need to stress up on the timely of adoption of the practices and it was also found that high cost of inputs like fertilizers and pesticides, non availability of labour and financial constraints were the factors leading to the non adoption of some of the recommended practices by the farmers.…”

Section: Adoption Of Recommended Cotton Cultivation Practicessupporting

confidence: 89%

“…This age farmers are less innovative as compared to young age. The same result was reported by Kumar & Dhorey [2], Roy et al [15] and Soumya et al [17]. Further, it was also observed from the above table that, all other socio economic characteristics viz., eeducation, aannual income, farming experience, area under cotton cultivation, extension contact, training undergone and mass media exposure were found to had positive and significant relationship with the extent of adoption of the respondents.…”

Section: Relationship Between the Socioeconomic Characteristics And Esupporting

confidence: 86%

“…Introduction of Bt. cotton hybrids resulted in excellent control of American Bollworm and reduced the use of insecticides, besides reduced production cost and increasing profit, Bt cotton lowered farming risk and improved farmer's perspective in cultivating cotton crop [2].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Extent of Adoption of Recommended Practices of Cotton Cultivation by the Farmers

Savitha

Ravi

2020

CJAST

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An attempt was made to assess the adoption behaviour of the cotton growers about the recommended practices and in-situ incorporation of cotton stalks by the respondent farmers. The study was conducted in four villages of Sadashivpet mandal of Medak district of Telangana purposively and a total of 120 farmers at the rate of 30 from each village were selected by following the simple random sampling technique. An interview schedule was prepared for collection data pertaining to the adoption of recommended practices and in-situ incorporation of stalks by the respondents. From the study, it could be concluded that, with respect to the adoption, majority of the farmers (70.00%) fell under medium category of adoption followed by low (17.50%) and high (12.50%) categories. With regard to the practice wise adoption, seeds and sowing, plant protection measures, land preparation and inter cultivation operations were adopted by more than eighty percent of the respondents. Among the socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents except age all other factors posed significant positive association with the extent of adoption of the recommended practices of cotton. The study also revealed that, only 35.83 per cent of the farmers were aware about the in-situ incorporation of cotton stalks in to the soil and cent percent of the farmers were aware of using the stalks as fuel/fire wood for cooking purpose.

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Section: Relationship Between the Socioeconomic Characteristics And Esupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Adoption Of Recommended Cotton Cultivation Practicessupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Relationship Between the Socioeconomic Characteristics And Esupporting

confidence: 86%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Extent of Adoption of Recommended Practices of Cotton Cultivation by the Farmers

Savitha

Ravi

2020

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“…Majority of the respondents (70%) had medium level of extent of adoption of Bt. Cotton practices in Telangana state, followed by low (18.00%), high (12%) level of extent of adoption [1]. Venkateshwar Rao et al ., [2] revealed that nearly half (45.0%) of the KVK adopted cotton farmers had high level of extent of adoption of production technologies followed by medium (31.67%) and low (23.33%).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extent of Adoption of ANGRAU Technologies in Cotton Crop in Andhra Pradesh, India

Chowdary¹,

Prasad²,

Vemaraju³

2021

AJAEES

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Cotton is the backbone of Indian textile industry, which produces 59% of the country’s total fiber production. Ex-post facto research design was selected as an appropriate research design to investigate the variables influencing extent of ANGRAU technologies in cotton cultivation. Two districts were selected purposively from Andhra Pradesh based on the highest area under cotton cultivation. The names of the selected districts were Kurnool and Guntur. Three mandals from each district were purposively selected based on the highest area of cotton cultivation thus constituting six mandals. Four villages from each mandal were selected by following simple random sampling procedure. The sample constituted to a total of twenty four villages. From each of the selected village, ten farmers were selected by following lottery method of simple random sampling procedure. The sample constituted to a total of 240 respondents. Cent per cent of the farmers had adopted seed rate followed by overwhelmingly (92.08%) of the members had adopted spacing per cent had adopted disease management practices, 53.33 per cent had adopted weed management, more than half (52.50%) had adopted harvesting and water management practices, 32.5 per cent had adopted nutrient management, 15.83 per cent had adopted fertilizer management and minute (3.33%) had adopted recommended varieties of SAU. In overall level of extent of adoption of recommended practices in cotton cultivation more than half (60.00%) of the cotton farmers had medium adoption of recommended practices in cotton cultivation followed by one-fifth (20.00%) of the cotton farmers had high adoption of recommended practices in cotton cultivation and rest (20.00%) had low adoption of recommended practices in cotton cultivation.

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Adoption of Bt Cotton Growers for Control of Pink Bollworm

Todkar¹,

Jakkawad²,

Khodake³

2020

Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci

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Extent of Adoption of Farmers about Bt Cotton Practices in Warangal District of Telangana State, India

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Extent of Adoption of Recommended Practices of Cotton Cultivation by the Farmers

Extent of Adoption of Recommended Practices of Cotton Cultivation by the Farmers

Extent of Adoption of ANGRAU Technologies in Cotton Crop in Andhra Pradesh, India

Adoption of Bt Cotton Growers for Control of Pink Bollworm

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