Adoption of Improved Groundnut Production Technology under Front Line Demonstration

The present study was conducted in 4 villages of Deesa taluka where FLDs on groundnut crop were conducted by KVK. Groundnut is one of the most important crops among the different oilseed crops grown in Gujarat. The finding of the study indicated that the extent of adoption of the demonstrated groundnut production technology was medium to high among the majority of the respondents from beneficiary farmers (92.86%) and non-beneficiary farmers (81.42%). Significant difference between beneficiary and non-beneficiary farmers with respect to their extent of adoption of improved demonstrated groundnut production technology were found. Beneficiary farmers had higher level of adoption about improved groundnut crops practices as compared to non-beneficiary farmer. The present study concludes that education, social participation, farm size, annual income, extension participation, source of information, scientific orientation and knowledge of the beneficiary farmers were positively related with extent of adoption of improved demonstrated groundnut production technology.