Adoption of Vegetable Cultivation : A Discriminant Function Analysis

The present study was conducted in Barpeta district of Assam to discriminate the selected factors of vegetables growers responsible for low and high adoption level of vegetable cultivation. Data were collected from 200 vegetable growers. It was found that cosmopoliteness, utilization of sources of information and training status were the three important variables indiscriminately contributing more than the average distances as compared to other variables in discriminating low and high level of adoption of vegetable cultivation.