Present Status of Adoption of Bt Cotton Production Technology by Farmers

The study was conducted in Nanded district of Maharashtra state to know the extent of adoption of Bt cotton production technology by the farmers and to find out constraints faced by them in adoption of Bt cotton production technology. From the study, it was found that most of them had medium level of adoption of Bt cotton production technology. Regarding constraints, all the Bt cotton growers expressed the constraints of non-availability of labour for preparatory tillage and intercultivation, lack of irrigation water, high cost of fertilizers and pesticides and non-availability of sufficient quantity of female labour for cotton picking.