Appropriateness of improved rice cultivation technologies for upland ecosystem

Abstract

The data relating to need perception about rice cultivation technologies suitable for upland ecosystem were collected from 160 farmers and 40 extension personnel of Dhenkanal district. The need for ‘training on scientific and recommended rice cultivation technologies’ was perceived as the most important one by the farmers as well as by the extension personnel. Degree of appropriateness varied proportionally with the category of farmers on not appropriate to highly appropriate continuum. As far as overall RRCTs were concerned, these were somewhat appropriate to small farmers and appropriate to medium and large farmers. The small farmers perceived half of technologies as ‘not appropriate’ (MAS upto 2.05) whereas, medium farmers perceived three technologies as‘not appropriate’. As far as large farmers were concerned most of the technologies were perceived as ‘appropriate’ or ‘highly appropriate’. They did not feel any technology to be ‘not appropriate’.