The present study was conducted in Thi-Qar province of southern Iraq where the use of Polly plastic has become popular. The study was carried out on 430 tomato growers. To conduct the study a multistage simple random sampling technique was followed to draw a sample of 86 tomato producers (20% of the total number of tomato growers). The questionnaire technique and interview with tomato producers were adopted to collect data from June 2012 to July 2012. This study revealed that the highest percentage (47.674%) belonged to the low category level of knowledge about modern agricultural technology use in tomato production in Polly plastic. The relationship of the independent variables with knowledge level of tomato producers was positive and significant relationships at one percent level of probability. Furthermore, regression analysis was carried out with eleven variables namely age, education ,social class , family size, farm power, family type , number of Polly plastic installed, experience in the Polly plastic , source of information utilization , social participation and exposure to extension methods. The study contributed a significant level of variation to the knowledge about modern agricultural technology in tomato production using Polly plastic (R2=60.39)

Keyword: Knowledge; Tomato growers; Polly plastic; Agricultural technology;