Factors Influencing the Adoption of Pre-and Post-Harvest Management Technologies of Groundnut in Telangana State

Abstract

Groundnut (Arachis hypogea) is one of the important oilseed crop due to its nutritional value and high consumption all over the world. India ranks second in groundnut production in the world. Groundnut seeds contains (40–56%) edible oil, (20–30%) protein, (10–20%) carbohydrate and several nutritional components. There is a gap between the yield obtained in demonstrations plots and farmers’ fields. There are several reasons that contribute for these yield gaps, non- adoption of recommended technologies is one of the major reason. The reasons for non-adoption may be due to low knowledge and other socio-economic constraints encountered by the farmers. The present study was conducted in Mahabubnagar district of Telangana State. A total of 60 respondents were selected from 8 villages of Koilkonda and Mohammadabad mandals by simple random sampling method. Majority (56.7%) of groundnut farmers belonged to medium level of adoption. The characteristics like age had negative and non significant relationship with extent of adoption of technologies while size of landholding, annual income, farming experience, irrigation potential, social participation, input acquisition pattern, achievement motivation, risk taking ability, market intelligence had positive an significant relationship with extent of adoption technologies and education, annual income, information seeking behaviour and knowledge had positive and highly significant relationship with extent of adoption pre- and post- harvest management technologies of groundnut crop.