The study conducted in two mentha growing districts of Uttar Pradesh, the highest mentha producing in India, to assess the extent of adoption of recommended mentha production technology by the farmers and to study the gap in adoption with respect to various socio-personal and technological factors. The findings of the research revealed that among mentha production technology, the extent of adoption was found to be maximum (> 50 %) in case of transplanting and harvesting, on the other hand nursery management and pest management practices showed minimum extent of adoption (<30%). Most of the respondents (65%) had medium level of adoption of recommended practices of mentha cultivation. The study also indicated that the socio-economic factors like education, land holding, annual income, experience in mentha cultivation, contact with extension agent, mass media exposure and labour availability were positively and significantly associated with the extent of adoption of mentha cultivation technology at 1% level of significance whereas age and cropping pattern had a non-significant relationship with the level of adoption. The significant Kruskal-Wallis value (at 1% LS) of socio-economic profiles of the respondents indicated that there was absolute difference among the three categories of adoption level with respect to various socio-economic characteristics, while there was no significant difference among different level of adoption with respect to age, cropping pattern and irrigation sources. Thus the study highlighted the gap in adoption of mentha production technologies with empirical analysis of the observations which may help to enhance mentha production through supply and value-chain analysis

Keyword: Mentha production technology; Extent of adoption; Socio-economic profiles; Cropping pattern;