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Extent of Knowledge and Adoption of Mustard Production Technology by the Farmers

D.P. Rai, Santosh Kumar Singh, Sachindra Kumar Pandey

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The major rape seed-mustard growing states are Haryana, M.P., Rajasthan and U.P. representing 81 per cent of the national acreage and contributing 82.9 per cent to the total rape seed-Mustard production in spite of having a lot of technology, production of mustard is not up to the higher extent. Keeping this view, study was conducted in Jhansi District of (U.P.) in 2011. Being major mustard growing area, this study was conducted in five randomly selected villages of Moth blocks of the District. An exhaustive list of mustard growers from selected villages were prepared and total 120 respondents were selected with the random sampling method. Responses were recorded through pre- structured interview schedule. Correlation between adoption of mustard production technologies and personal socio-economic profiles of the growers were obtained. The attributes knowledge of production technology, annual income, level of education, socio-economic status, social participation, extension participation, size of land holding were positively and high significantly correlated with adoption; whereas, the characteristics age and type of family were observed negatively correlated with adoption of mustard production technology

Keyword: Mustard production technology

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