Adoption of Drip Irrigation Technologies by the Orange Growers

The study was undertaken in the year 2012- 2013. A sample of 120 farmers was randomly selected in 14 villages of Chandur Bazar Punchayat Samiti of Amravati district of Maharashtra. The investigation revealed that 55.83 per cent of respondents of orange growers had medium level of adoption of drip irrigation technologies while, 33.33 per cent of respondents of orange growers had high level of adoption and 10.83 per cent of respondent possessed low level of adoption of drip irrigation technologies. The correlation analysis related to independent variable viz., education, land holding, annual income, cosmopolitness, innovativeness, extension contact, knowledge, irrigation source, risk preference and cropping pattern showed significant and positive relationship with adoption of drip irrigation technologies. While only age showed negative and non significant relationship between adoption of drip irrigation technologies.