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Production Constraints of Maize Cultivation under Mokokchung District of Nagaland


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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mokokchung (Nagaland), India
2 Nagaland University, Medziphema (Nagaland), India
     

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The present study was conducted in Mokokchung district of Nagaland. Purposively eight villages were selected from four selected rural development (RD) blocks. From those eight villages 200 respondents were selected randomly. The study reveals that the major constrains of high quality protein maize production was noted in non-availability of quality seed by 89.50 per cent of the respondents which comes under infrastructural constraint.

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Constraints, High Quality Maize, Villages, Production.
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Authors

Pijush Kanti Biswas
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mokokchung (Nagaland), India
Rajib Das
Nagaland University, Medziphema (Nagaland), India
Samuel Sangtam
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Mokokchung (Nagaland), India

Abstract


The present study was conducted in Mokokchung district of Nagaland. Purposively eight villages were selected from four selected rural development (RD) blocks. From those eight villages 200 respondents were selected randomly. The study reveals that the major constrains of high quality protein maize production was noted in non-availability of quality seed by 89.50 per cent of the respondents which comes under infrastructural constraint.

Keywords


Constraints, High Quality Maize, Villages, Production.

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