PROFILE OF THE ADOPTED AND NON-ADOPTED VILLAGES RESPONDENTS OF FLDS TECHNOLOGY ON PIGEON PEA

S.R. KUMBHANI¹*, B.B. PATEL², J.N. ZALA³, R.M. BHUVA⁴, K.U. CHANDRAVADIA⁵, J.V. CHOVATIYA^6
1Director of Extension Education, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat
²Director of Extension Education, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat
³Director of Extension Education, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat
⁴Agricultural Technology Information Center, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat
⁵College of Agriculture, Jabugam, 391155, Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 388001
⁶College of Agriculture, Khapat, Porbandar, Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh, 362001, Gujarat
* Corresponding Author : srkumbhani@nau.in

Received : 19-01-2018     Accepted : 28-01-2018     Published : 30-01-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 2       Pages : 5082 - 5084
Int J Agr Sci 10.2 (2018):5082-5084

Keywords : FLD, KVK, Profile of respondents, Farm Science Centre, Adoption
Academic Editor : Bayoudh Chokri, Dr Senthilkumar S., Mukhopadhyay C.S., Belkar Y.K., Dr J M Mayani
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Director of Extension Education, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, 396450, Gujarat
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

Organising “Front Line Demonstrations (FLDs)” on various crops to generate production data and feedback information is one of the mandates of KVKs. The present study was conducted in four randomly selected villages of Narmada district from the list of KVK adopted villages. While four neighboring villages of the adopted one were selected purposively as the Non-adopted village. From each village's ten respondents, thus 80 respondents were randomly selected. It was observed that majority of the respondents were in middle age group, educated up to primary school level, participated in social activities, participated in more than one extension activity, annual income up to Rs.50,000/-, engaged in farming as main occupation, possessed 0.01 – 2.00 ha of land, found to have medium level of economic motivation and found to have medium level of knowledge and adoption of pigeon pea production technology in adopted villages whereas, majority of the respondents were in middle age group, educated up to primary school level, not participated in social activities, participated in more than one extension activity, annual income up to Rs. 50,000/-, engaged in farming as main occupation, possessed 0.01 – 1.00 ha of land and found to have medium level of economic motivation in non-adopted villages.

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