Knowledge of Production Technology of Banana Growers

The study was undertaken in the year 2013-14. A sample of 120 banana growers was randomly selected in 7 villages from Achalpur tahsil of Amravati district of Maharashtra. It was revealed that majority of respondents were middle aged group, educated secondary school level, semi medium category of land holding, high level of annual income, medium family size, medium economic motivation, medium innovativeness, medium risk orientation, tube well as source of irrigation, medium social participation, medium source of information. Majority (61.00%) of banana growers had medium level of knowledge followed by (17.00%) and (22.00%) had low and high level of knowledge, respectively. As regard to finding of relational analysis revealed that out of eleven characteristics studied education, land holding, economic motivation, innovativeness, source of irrigation, source of information of respondents had positive significant relationship with knowledge about banana production technology practices at 0.05 level of probability. Whereas characteristics like age, annual income, risk orientation, social participation shows non-significant relationship with knowledge. While size of family had negatively non-significant relationship with knowledge.