Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Practices by Farmers

A survey of 120 proportionally selected sample of farmers from Amravati Taluka of Amravati district of Vidarbha in Maharashtra revealed that majority of respondents were from middle age group and belonged to educated upto college and above. Then majority of farmers possessed semi medium level of land holding while the respondents had low level of social participation and medium level of extension contact and majority of respondents were found to have medium level of innovativeness and high level of cosmopoliteness and most of respondents were having medium level of knowledge and medium level of awareness about S.W.C.Ps. It was observed that out of 11 variables age, land holding and social participation were found to be non significant with adoption of S.W.C.Ps. and education, annual income, cosmopoliteness, innovativeness, socio-economic station, knowledge and awareness were found to be positively significant with adoption of S.W.C.Ps.