Type : Other Article
Daya Ram, Angad Prasad, B. P. Misra, M. Kumar4 and G. Kar
The rapid growing population of India will need 35-37 million metric tones more food production by 2020 A.D. To achieve this projected target, the adoption of latest production technologies is must, particularly in major crop i.e. wheat, which could be got momentum, if these technologies are disseminated through Front-Line demonstrations.A study was undertaken in three districts of UP and the results of this study reveals that education, size of land holding, average annual income and marketing facilities were most important factors to effect the adoption of farmers of wheat production technologies as the ‘r’ values were found 0.20128 in case of education (significant at 5 per cent level of probability), 0.27788, 0.36250 and 0.30509 respectively in case of size of land holding, average annual income and marketing facilities (significant at 1 per cent level of probability). Further, study reveals that size of land holding and value orientation were most important factors for predicting the adoption of improved wheat cultivation technologies by practicing farmers
Keyword: Improved wheat production