Agriculture Update

P. B. Shinde ¹, P. R. Deshmukh ², R. D. Ahire ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani (M.S.), IN
2 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani (M.S.), IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Parbhani district of the Marathwada Region of Maharashtra state. Three talukas were selected randomly. From each taluka four villages were selected on the basis of list of the soybean seed growers in Parbhani district obtained from Mahabeej Office Parbhani. Thus, 12 villages were selected for present study .Ten soybean seed production growers from each village were selected randomly thus, 120 respondents were selected by following lottery method from selected villages. They were interviewed, personally to collect the data with the help of structured interview schedule. The collected data were processed and statistically analyzed.

Keywords

Constraints, Soybean Growers, Seed Production Technology.

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Sujata R. Pawar ¹, P. S. Kapse ¹, R. D. Ahire ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani (M.S.), IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Nanded district of Marathwada region of Maharashtra State with an objective to study the constraints faced by banana growers in adoption of banana production technology and obtained their suggestions to overcome these constraints. The data were collected with the help of interview schedule. The result of the study depicted that majority of the banana growers faced the constraints of load shedding of electricity during irrigation, followed by non-availability of suckers at the time of planting, high cost of wages for preparatory tillage operations, high cost of FYM or compost and chemical fertilizers and poor quality of suckers for planting. The data regarding suggestions of the respondents given to overcome the constraints faced by them in adoption of banana production technology revealed that information regarding irrigation should be given in time by extension agencies, followed by tissue culture plants should be made available in sufficient quantity, government should provide NADEP and vermicompost unit and pesticide should be provided at low cost, message alerts through SMS about insect, pest and control measures should be given to farmers in time, good quality sucker should be supplied to farmers in time and reducing the cost of fertilizer were the major suggestions.

Keywords

Constraints, Suggestions, Banana Production Technology.

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A. V. Khandre ¹, J. V. Ekale ¹, R. D. Ahire ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani (M.S.), IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted with specific objectives to study knowledge and adoption of sugarcane production technology. For this study Latur district was selected and from Latur district two talukas viz., Chakur and Udgir were selected. From these two talukas twelve villages were selected randomly and ten respondents from each village were selected, i.e. 120 respondents from 12 villages constituted the sample for the study. Ex-Post Facto research design was used for the research study. The major constraints faced by respondents in adoption of sugarcane production technologies were lack of knowledge about the identification of insect and pest, lack of availability water and lack of knowledge about scientific plant protection measures. The majority of the respondents suggested that information should be provided about identification of insect and pests of sugarcane crop and their proper control measures, permanent water resources should be available i.e. farm pond and to provide the information about sett treatment.

Keywords

Constraints, Suggetions, Sugarcane Crop, Sugarcane Production Technology, Sugarcane Growers.

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R. D. Ahire ¹, R. S. Karhale ¹, R. P. Kadam ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani (M.S.), IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted with specific objectives to study technological gap in pigeonpea production technology. For this study Parbhani district was selected and from Parbhani district three talukas viz., Gangakhed, Jintur and Parbhani were selected. From these three talukas twelve village were selected randomly and ten respondents from each village were selected, i.e. 120 respondents from 12 villages constituted the sample for the study. Ex-Post Facto research design was used for the research study. The major constraints faced by respondents in technological gap in pigeonpea production technologies were high cost of FYM, high cost of chemical fertilizer, lack of knowledge about benefits of intercultural operation, non-availability of bio-fertilizer and fungicide for seed treatment in rural area. The majority of the respondents suggested that cost of seed should be reduced, training programme should be organized to improve the knowledge regarding land use, bio-fertilizer and detail package of practices, mechanical threshers should be made available to groups by providing 100 per cent subsidy.

Keywords

Technological Gap, Constraints, Suggestions, Pigeonpea, Production Technology.

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R. D. Ahire ¹, R. S. Karhale ¹, R. P. Kadam ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani (M.S.), IN

Abstract

The present study was conducted in three tahsil of Parbhani district. The sample of 120 respondents was studied. As regard the profile of respondents, it was observed that majority (67.50%) of the respondents were having middle level of age with an education as high school level (29.16%), the respondents were possessing medium size of land holding (38.35%). Further, it was observed that majority (76.67%) of the respondents were from medium annual income group. 51.76 per cent respondents were from middle social participation group. Further, 56.67 per cent of the respondents were having medium degree of extension contact. Most of the respondents were in the medium use of sources of information (65.00%) and economic motivation category (58.34%). Further 47.50 per cent of the respondents were having medium degree of risk orientation and 61.66 per cent of the respondents had medium level of knowledge. The 67.50 per cent of the respondents were found in medium technological gap group followed by 22.50 and 10.00 per cent respondents in high and low technological gap group, respectively. Correlation co-efficient analysis showed education, land holding, annual income, social participation, extension contact, sources of information, economic motivation, risk orientation and knowledge had negative and highly significant relationship with overall technological gap, whereas age of the respondents had positive and highly significant relationship with overall technological gap.

Keywords

Pigeonpea, Production Technology, Technological Gap.

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