Post-adoption behaviour of farmers towards horticultural soil and water conservation technologies for watershed management in India

Post-adoption response of farmers toward agroforestry based soil and water conservation measures for watershed management in India

“…Bagdi (1997) also reported that the reasons for discontinuance of agricultural technologies were the availability of alternative new or better technologies, negative consequences, non-availability of inputs and low profitability from technology. However, lack of information/guidance, non-availability of inputs and unwillingness were also considered as major reason for low/no adoption of different soil and water conservation (SWC) practices (Dhammu et al, 1998;Kadam et al, 2001 andKumar, 2005).…”