India’s population touched 1.198 billion in 2009, second to China’s 1.3438 billion. The challenge for the research system in the 21st Century is to evolve land productivity increasing farm technologies suited to the local environmental conditions of different agro-climate regions. Dryland farming will play an important role in increasing agricultural production of the country. Dryland farming is way of life for a majority of Indian farmers. It is characterized by the resource poor, small and marginal farmers, a poor infrastructure and low investments in technology and inputs. The average productivity in dry regions is low. Inputs are important resources in order to make the farm productive. The productivity depends upon the availability and proper utilization of inputs and adoption of appropriate technology.In this context a study was planned with the specific objective to measure the extent of input utilization by farmers for cultivation of crops under under dryland farming.The study highlighted that in cultivation of rapeseed and mustard the inputs such as seed-cum-fertilizer drill, high yielding variety seeds and men/women labour were utilized as per recommendation by 81, 75 and 56 per cent of farmers, respectively. The inputs, namely, knapsack sprayer, biofertiilzers and bullock pair, wheel hand-hoe, camel and insecticides/pesticides, farm yard manure were not utilized by 94, 87, 78, 75, 69 and 56 per cent of farmers, respectively. The inputs such as ridger seeder and battery operated low volume sprayer were not utilized by any of the rapeseed and mustard growers. For cultivation of gram, the inputs such as camel, men/women labour and nitrogenous fertilizer were utilized as per recommendation by 63, 54, 53 per cent of farmers, respectively. The inputs such as Bavistin, bullockpair, biofertilizers, Chlorphyriphos 25 EC, phosphatic fertilizers, insecticides/pesticides and seed-cum-fertilizer drill and high yielding variety seeds were not utilized by 98, 96, 85, 80, 79, 71, 66 and 47 per cent of gram growers, respectively. Whereas, pheramone traps and light traps were not utilized by any of the gram growers for integrated pest management.For cultivation of bajra crop, the inputs, namely, high yielding variety seeds, seed-cum-fertilizer drill and men/women labour were utilized for cultivation of bajra as per recommendation by 67, 61 and 51 per cent of farmers, respectively. The inputs like farm yard manure as mulching and ridger seeder were not utilized by any of the bajra growers, whereas, bullock-pair, biofertilizers, wheel hand-hoe and camel were not utilized by 97, 86, 85 and 77 per cent of farmers, respectively.The utilization level of inputs with a majority of farmers was low to medium in cultivation of rapeseed and mustard, gram and bajra crop

Keyword: Input utilization; Rapese