Adoption of Integrated Pest Management Practices by Pigeonpea Growers

The present study was conducted mainly with the objective to study the adoption of integrated pest management technology by pigeonpea growers. For this study, Latur and Osmanabad districts were selected randomly by considered the large area under pigeonpea cultivation.It was noticed that, majority of the respondents with 11 to 29 years of farm experience, were educated upto Primary as well as Secondary level, small farmers in land holding, medium in family size, low annual income, agriculture and subsidiary enterprises of occupation, medium social participation, medium extension contact, medium risk orientation and medium economic motivation. It was observed from study that majority (46.67 %) of respondents had medium level of adoption. Out of ten independent variables family size, annual income, occupation, social participation, and risk orientation had positive but non-significant relationship with adoption of pigeonpea growers regarding IPM technology in pigeonpea.