Factors Effecting Adoption of Recommended Agricultural Practices of Organic Turmeric in Kandhamal District of Odisha India

Abstract

Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) is an important cash crop grown by tribal farmers of Odisha for their livelihood. It has been observed that a large number of tribal farmers still practice the traditional method of cultivation of turmeric. Turmeric is cultivated in slopes with or without terraces and in plains as a sole crop and intercrop. Local varieties 'Kandhamal Local' of turmeric are grown in Kandhamal district of Odisha. The present study was conducted during (2020-21) in Kandhamal district of Odisha to analyze the Factors responsible for willingness to adopt recommended agricultural Practices by turmeric growers and factors, socioeconomic constraints, infrastructure and situational constraints, personal constraints, managerial constraints, institutional & policy constraints and overall constraints affecting responsible for willingness to adopt recommended agricultural practices of organic turmeric. It was found that turmeric growers had a medium to high level of willingness to adopt recommended agricultural practices of organic turmeric. And among selected factors the respondent's extent of participants had a negative and significant relationship followed by nature of participants and size of agricultural and had positive and significant relationship with Factors responsible for willingness to adopt recommended agricultural Practices of Organic Turmeric. KASAM, Horticulture extension workers, Horticulture department were regularly motivating them to adopt recommended agricultural practices of organic turmeric.