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ADOPTION OF IMPROVED PRACTICES OF CABBAGE GROWING FARMERS

K.C. Meena, K.S. Babel & H. R. Meena

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Udaipur district of Rajasthan to study the farmers’ extent of adoption of the improved cultivation practices of cabbage of the study area. Five peripheral and five distant villages were selected on the basis of maximum area under cabbage. From each village, a proportionate sample of cabbage grower was drawn randomly. Each category of the villages consisted half of the sample size i.e.75 respondents. A total sample size constituted of 150 respondents. The study revealed that the majority of the respondents belonged to medium adoption group in both the categories of respondents. The study also revealed that there was significant difference in adoption between both the categories of respondents regarding HYVs, nursery preparation, seed treatment, time of sowing, seed rate and spacing, manure and fertilizers, irrigation management, plant protection measures and harvesting except three improved practices i.e. soil and field preparation, age of seedling for transplanting and weed management where difference was not significant. Peripheral respondents had high adoption as compared to distant respondents regarding major improved practices of cabbage cultivation.

Keyword: Adoption, Improved Practices of Cabbage, Farmers.

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