Technological Gap in Adoption of Improved Mushroom Cultivation Practices in Haryana

Technological gap is the gap between the level of recommendation and extent of their adoption. Accordingly, the study was conducted to know the technological gap of the mushroom growers about mushroom cultivation which is grown indoor and provides employment to the unemployed youth and small farmers to raise their social status and to earn extra income other than the filed crops. The study was conducted in Ambala, Panchkula and Yamunanagar districts of Haryana state. It was inferred from the study that the farmers had overall 32.38 per cent technological gap in adoption of improved mushroom cultivation practices. Among different categories, it was found that 32 per cent of the respondents had low level of technological gap (less than 25 per cent) and about half of the respondent (46 per cent) having medium level of technological gap (between 25-30 per cent) where as about one fifth (27 per cent) of the respondents had high level of technological gap (above 30 per cent). The maximum gap was found in case of compost making (59 per cent) followed by management practices (42.25 per cent) and casing preparation (38.07 per cent) as compared to other mushroom cultivation practices.