Perception of the Jute Growers on Attributes of Innovation- CRIJAF SONA

Abstract

To improve the quality of the jute fibres CRIJAF SONA was developed and disseminated by ICAR- Central Research Institute of Jute and Allied Fibres (CRIJAF). A study was carried out on 2021 in North 24 Parganas and Nadia districts respectively to assess the various aspects of CRIJAF SONA as perceived by the randomly selected 80 jute growers using structured interview schedule. The index values of perceived attributes of CRIJAF SONA for relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, observability and trialability were calculated as 93.87, 88.25, 43.08, 93.33 and 94.69 respectively. The technology effectiveness was found as 85.41 which shows that the technology is having favourable perception in selected jute growing areas.

Retting with efficient microbial consortium helps in improving jute fibre quality and profitability: a study in Eastern India

“…The significant decrease in retting duration with microbial consortium was also reported (Majumdar and Satpathy, 2014;Das et al, 2018;Singh et al, 2019, Majumdar et al, 2021and Chatterjee and Mondal, 2022. The significantly lower jute retting duration over the years with microbial consortium implies the efficacy of the microbial consortium in quick completion of jute retting.…”

“…Lower root content in jute fibre on using microbial consortium over without microbial consortium has also been reported (Das et al, 2015;Das et al, 2018;Majumdar et al, 2021). Chatterjee and Mondal (2022) reported that 83.75% jute growers in Nadia and North 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal used microbial consortium (CRIJAF SONA) for retting, found reported absence of root content in resultant jute fibre. Thus, microbial consortium was the only contributing factor for minimization of root content of jute fibre, it acted independently and its effect was significant for this quality parameter irrespective of locations and years.…”

Perception of Urban Consumers on Dairy Farming and Milk Consumption in North India

“…During survey administration to the respondents, these statements were rated on five-point continuum strongly disagree (1), disagree (2), neither agree nor disagree (3), agree (4), and strongly agree (5). Thereafter, Perception Index was calculated by using the following formula (Chatterjee & Mondal, 2022) Data were collected by personally interviewing the respondents using a pretested structured schedule between February, 2022 and April, 2022. The responses were recorded and tabulated before carrying out required statistical analysis.…”