Impact of Family Education on Vegetable Cultivation in Haryana

Education has significant contribution to farmer's awareness. Family education affects socio-economic and cultural life of an individual, his attitude and awareness towards life and society. Level of family education had affected adoption of agricultural practices. So family education of the respondents was taken for examination in the present study. The present study was conducted in rural agricultural Haryana. For the purpose, four districts namely Sonipat, Gurgaon, Kurukshetra, and Hisar were selected on the basis of highest area under vegetable cultivation. From each selected district, one tehsil was selected. Seventy five respondents from each tehsil were randomly selected for the purpose of data collection. Respondents were personally interviewed using well structured schedule. The data reveals that majority of the respondents had family education up to matric (56.33%) followed by up to graduation (25%) and illiterate (16%). Only about 3 per cent of the respondents had family education up to graduation and above. Those who were belongs to more educated family were more prone to change and adopted new scientific techniques more than compare to less educated family and innovative farmers who were diversified to vegetable cultivators were belongs to more educated family as compare to the traditional farmers. Though Association of scientific technique of farming and Innovative vegetable cultivators were found to be positively associated with higher family education.