Knowledge of Sugarcane Growers Regarding Integrated Pest and Disease Management Practices in Nandurbar District

The present study was undertaken in Nandurbar district with the specific objectives to know the knowledge level of sugarcane grower regarding IPDM practices. It was observed that regarding practice wise knowledge level of IPDM most of respondents had good information about cultural operations followed by Mechanical practices. In distributional analysis it was concluded that majority of the respondents had medium level of knowledge of IPDM practices. In relational analysis it was observed that education , land holding, area under sugarcane , annual income , socio-economic status and sources of information were positively and significantly correlated with Knowledge level.