The present study was carried out in the districts of Karimganj, Lakhimpur and Jorhat of Assam to assess the extent of adoption of rice production technology recommended by Assam Agricultural University. A purposive sampling technique was followed and statistical methods such as percentage, frequency, mean and ranking were used for analyzing the data. Data were collected through personal interview method during the period from late 2009 to early 2010. A total of 360 respondents were interviewed with the help of the structured schedule. Different rice production technologies like ‘Harvesting methods’, ‘Puddling’, ‘Ploughing’ and ‘Age of uprooting of seedlings’ had the highest number of full adopters among all the 25practices recommended by AAU. However, ‘Bio-fertilizers’ had the highest percentage of ‘no adopters’ (98.05%) and in most cases the respondents had no idea about biofertilizers. The study implies that majority of the respondents were partial adopters and their extent of adoption increases with the increases in ‘family size’ and ‘economic motivation’. The two variables ‘family size’ and ‘economic motivation’ are also good predictors of extent of adoption of recommended rice production technology

Keyword: Extent of adoption; Recommended Production technology; Correlation;