The present study was conducted during 2014-15 to study the role performance of field extension functionaries of Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Services (DAH&VS) and Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF). An ex-post facto research design was employed for the study. The study was restricted to 120 field extension functionaries (FEFs) of DAH&VS and KMF, selected from 2 districts i.e., Bangalore Rural and Bangalore Urban districts of Karnataka state. Data collection was done by using the questionnaire method. Majority of the respondents (62.50%) were in medium level of role performance category followed by 20.00 per cent and 17.50 per cent were in low and high level of role performance categories respectively. The areas wise activity role performance shows that, the other activities were the most prioritized activity with weighted mean score (42.67) followed by veterinary services (40.88) followed by extension services (39.00) respectively. The result shows that extension services were the third most prioritize activity of FEFs in their job activities. This is the main concern for both the department, so the policy makers of both departments should create an exclusive unit of some extension personnel who were only concern with livestock education services, transfer of dairy technology, level of adoption, their consequences and feedback from farmers.

The study was undertaken in two districts of Haryana state namely, Yamuna Nagar and Kaithal and a total no. of one hundred twenty respondents were interviewed. The findings further revealed that (64.20%) of respondents perceived medium prospects of Agro-forestry, whereas, (33.30%) respondents perceived low and (2.5%) respondents perceived high prospects of Agro-forestry. The study concluded that most of the respondents believed to have medium level of technical prospects (96.70%), economical prospects (61.70%), social prospects (97.50%) and ecological prospects (94.2%) regarding Agro-forestry. They also believed to have low level of entrepreneurial prospects (56.70%). Problems encountered by the respondents in adoption of Agro-forestry revealed that there were 56.7% of respondents who believed to have medium problems regarding Agro-forestry adoption such as financial, technical, production, input management and other problems.

The study was carried out in Amreli and Bhavnagar District of South Saurashtra Agro-Climatic Zone of Gujarat State to identify the various constraints faced by cotton growers in cotton cultivation. A random sample of 200 cotton growers was selected from Amreli and Bhavnagar District and the constraints faced by cotton growers in cotton cultivation were to non-remunerative price, high price of soil reclamation materials, non-availability of information about future aberrant weather conditions including cyclone, high price of insecticides/ pesticides & fungicides, insufficient demonstration of improved technologies on farmers’ field, high price of chemical fertilizers, high price of organic manures, irregular supply of electricity and lack of knowledge to diagnose the pests and diseases in the crop. The important suggestions offered by the respondents were: quality seed supply should be ensured, effective insect-pest control methods should be developed, input should be supplied at subsidized rate, village level workers should frequently contact the farmers to make them aware about new technologies, crop insurance should be made available for all the farmers at cheaper rate, provision of sufficient and timely credit facilities, remunerative price of farm produce and sufficient electricity should be provided.

India has needed to increase production and area of important crops to secure the fiber production as well as fiber security for the people. Despite, technological advancement, there is a wide gap exists between the know-how already attained and their application in the farmers' fields. The study was conducted in South Saurashtra Agro-Climatic Zone and district of Gujarat state on total sample size of 200 respondents of cotton cultivation, which were selected randomly from two talukas viz; Rajula of Amreli district and Mahuva of Bhavnagar district for the study. Majority of the cotton growers (80.50 per cent) had medium level of knowledge about crisis management practices; whereas 12.00 per cent and 7.50 per cent cotton growers had low and high level of knowledge about crisis management practices, respectively.

The study was conducted in Mehsana districts of Gujarat state was selected purposively as the most potential for production and productivity of Bt. Cotton. The purpose of study was to know the pesticide using behaviour of Bt Cotton Growers about IPM Practices. Multistage Random Sampling technique was used to select 120 farmers from 12 villages of Vijapur and Visanagar taluka. The result indicated that among the all Bt. cotton growers more than three-fifth (62.50 per cent) of the Bt. cotton growers had medium pesticide using behaviour about IPM Practices followed by 25.00 per cent of them had high pesticide using behaviour about IPM Practices. Whereas, only 12.50 percent of them had low pesticide using behaviour about IPM Practices. While in case of practice-wise pesticide using behaviour in Bt. cotton two-fifth of the respondents were used plant protection measures as per recommendation in seed treatment for sucking pests, seed treatment for diseases. The independents variables viz., education, farming experience, social participation, size of land holding, occupation, annual income, extension participation, sources of information, risk orientation, knowledge level about recommended Integrated Pest Management, and attitude towards use of pesticide were positively and significantly associated with extent pesticide using behaviour of recommended Bt. cotton plant protection measures by the Bt. cotton growers. Whereas, age had negative and non significant association with extent pesticide using behaviour of recommended Bt. cotton plant protection measures by the Bt. cotton growers.

The study was carried in Mehsana districts of Gujarat state. It was selected purposively as the district is considered as the most potential for production and productivity of Bt. Cotton. The purpose of the study was to identify the knowledge and attitude level of Bt. cotton about in integrated pest management practices. Multistage Random Sampling technique was used to select 120 farmers from 12 villages of Vijapur and Visanagar taluka. The result showed that the knowledge mean score index regarding sucking pest and its control, seed treatment, spraying equipments, disease and its control, bollworm control and care and management in using pesticide was observed higher in comparison to practices viz., physiological disorder, use of bio-pesticide, predators and sticky trap respectively. Further result showed that nearly three-fourth (73.33 per cent) of the Bt. cotton growers were having moderately favorable attitude towards the use of pesticides in Bt. cotton, followed by 16.67 per cent and 10.00 per cent of the Bt. cotton growers had less favorable and highly favorable attitude towards the use of pesticides, respectively.

Sesame is very good profitable promising crop under summer cultivation in Saurashtra region. It is short duration and water requirement is also less as compare to summer groundnut. Frontline demonstration is one of the best tool for transfer of new technology from lab to land. Attempts are made to Increase area and productivity of sesame in this area 20 frontline demonstration organised under the domain of KVK Amreli. All FLD were selected for study and then find out how much production of summer sesame increased after organising FLDs. Average 22.5 per cent adoption increased due to frontline demonstration. Yield of FLD per hectare was increased by 9.88 per cent as compared to Local Check. Sesame production is also increased 9.88 per cent due to increase in awareness, contact with scientist, diagnostic service of KVK.

The economics of cow and buffalo milk production in Junagadh district of Gujarat during 2014 was worked out for 144 milk producers selected randomly from twelve villages of three talukas. The analysis of cost, return and input-output ratio were separately carried out using tabular analysis for indigenous buffalo, Jafarabadi buffalo, indigenous cow and Gir cow maintenance and milk production. The average holding of sample farmers was revealed about 3.11 ha and about 79 per cent reported under irrigation. Among the surveyed 144 households, 155 have indigenous and 17 possess Jafarabadi buffaloes, besides 80 farmers have indigenous and 22 possess Gir cows. The average cost of per day per animal maintenance was reported about Rs. 223, Rs. 242, Rs. 194 and Rs. 213 respectively. It was noticed that the cost of maintenance of buffaloes and cows was found increasing with an increase in the size of farm. It found that buffalo and cow milk production was remunerative for all categories of farms, even if the cost-C2 is to be considered.

The study was conducted to know Extent of Knowledge about use of neem coated urea (NCU) in crop production among farmers of Jamnagar and Devbhumi Dwarka district. The According to ICAR guideline, 10 villages randomly selected from different location of the district, 10 farmers from each villages were selected for this study. Total 100 farmers were selected by proportionate random sample method. The data were collected by personal interview of the farmers. The sizes of land holding of farmers were 4, 19, 35 and 42 per cent marginal, small, medium and big farmers, respectively. 90 % farmers are heard about NCU; 87% aware with benefit of NCU over plain urea; 81% farmers using NCU; 73 % know use of NCU in less quantity as compare to plain urea; 85% farmers aware about NCU from input or cooperative dealers. Thus, according to view of farmers NCU more convenient and it will replace plain urea from market for more benefits in farming.

Knowledge of farmers plays an important role in adoption of any new improved agricultural technologies, without appropriate knowledge regarding particular technology knowledge directly affects the adoption rate. Likewise, adoption of any new technology is a mental process and requires certain mental stages to adopt. The present study was conducted in Matar taluka of Kheda district. Ten villages (Nandoli, Khandhali, Dethali, Heranj, Alindra, Limbasi, Machhiyel, Traj, Tranja and Khadiyarapura) were selected randomly. From each village 10 tomato growers were selected randomly. Thus, total 100 tomato growers were selected for the study.