Knowledge and Adoption of Sugarcane Management Practices by the Farmers

The respondents belonged to the old age group of above 56 years (41.67 per cent) followed by middle age group (36.66 per cent) and young group (21.67 per cent). A half of the respondents belonged to nuclear family (50.00 per cent) and joint type (50.00 per cent) of families. A large majority (90.83 per cent) of the respondents had small sized families. About 98.33 per cent of respondents had agriculture as their main occupation. More than two-fifth (41.66 per cent) of the respondents had obtained annual income less than Rs. 50,000. that almost all the paddy growers was complete knowledge about selection of soil and preparatory tillage operations, planting season, Improved varieties and Intercultural operations. Majority of Sugarcane growers complete knowledge about Source of planting material (98.33 per cent), seedrate (99.17 per cent), irrigation management (98.33), yield (97.50 per cent), harvesting (93.33), plant protection (86.66 per cent). that almost all the paddy growers was complete adoption about selection of soil (90.00 per cent) and preparatory tillage operations (92.50), harvesting (87.50 per cent). Majority of sugarcane growers complete adoption about planting season (38.33 per cent), seed rate (58.33 per cent), interculturing (92.50), improved varieties (67.50 per cent), plant protection (48.33 per cent). All the respondents faced the constraints like load shading of electricity. A large majority (76.67 per cent) of respondents facing the constraints as non availability of improved varieties and non availability fertilizer (72.50 per cent). The 70.00 per cent farmers faced the constraint lack of quantity of water supply for irrigation and 70.00 per cent farmer faced the constraint of lack of technical knowledge about proper use of micronutrient.