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Adoption of Drip Irrigation Technology Among Vegetable Growers of Chhindwara District (M.P.)

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Title Adoption of Drip Irrigation Technology Among Vegetable Growers of Chhindwara District (M.P.)
 
Creator Kumar, Pawan
 
Contributor Pande, A.K.
 
Subject EXTENSION EDUCATION
 
Description ABSTRACT
Drip irrigation is a localized irrigation method that slowly and frequently provides water directly to the plant root zone. The slow rate of water application at discrete location with associated low pressure and the irrigation of only a portion of the soil volume in the field can result in relativity compared to flooding and basin irrigation method. drip irrigation system offers many unique agronomic ,agro technical and economic advantages such as increased beneficial use of available water enhanced plant grow and yield, reduced salinity hazards to plant, improved fertilizer and chemical application ,limited weed growth, decreased energy requirement and improved cultural practices. Drip irrigation has the potential for precise, high level management is an extremely flexible irrigation to cropping situation and climatic zone .it almost any bordered the scope of irrigation for crops grow in areas with problem soil, which can be installed either as a surface irrigation system. Drip irrigation is an irrigation method in which application of small, precisely appropriate amount of water near to the root zone of plant at a slow rate, drop by drop through emitter/dripper. In this system, the irrigation efficiency can be achieved to the extent of 90 per cent while 30 to 40 per cent in conventional method of irrigation. Moreover, this system is more suitable for wider spaced crops especially fruit trees like, banana, pomegranate, grape, ber and orange orchards also vegetable crops. Drip irrigation method saves the water to the extent of 50 to 60 per cent, fertilizer by 25 to 30 per cent, which improves fertilizer efficiency, reduces the cost of intercultivation by 30 to 40 per cent, increase the yield by 15 to 20 per cent, reduces weed infestation, maintain optimum soil-water-air balance around plant base and improves the quality of crops. In addition, it requires low energy, minimum maintenance and less expense on layouts etc. That is why drip irrigation system is becoming more popular because of its efficiency.
The present study entitled “ A study on drip irrigation technology among vegetable growers in Chhindwara districtof Madhya Pradesh “ was conduct in the year 2011 -2012 with a sample size of 100 drip irrigation users selected from 13 villages.
Under the study out of 11 independent variables, eight variable viz. level of education, size of land holding, area under drip irrigation, farming experience of drip irrigation system, annual income, economic motivation, extension participation, and source of information were found to be significant with knowledge of drip irrigation technology.
similarly, size of land holding, area under drip irrigation, farming experience of drip irrigation system, annual income, and extension participation were to be significant with adoption of drip irrigation technology, whereas only two variables viz. age and subsidy had showed non – significant association with knowledge of drip irrigation technology and only five variables viz. age, education, economic motivation, source of information utilization and subsidy had showed non- significant association with adoption level of drip irrigation technology.
The profile study of the farmers revealed of the drip irrigation users in medium category regarding age group (62%), education level (35%), size of land holding (50%),area under drip irrigation (64%), farming experience (61%), annual income (59%),economic motivation (41%),extension participation (59%), source of information (55%), subsidy (57%), of drip irrigation users were in high category.
The extent of adoption of drip irrigation users was also studied with respect to management practices of drip irrigation system. The data showed that the maximum percentage of drip irrigation users had medium adoption level (62%) of management practices of drip irrigation system. it was also found that conventional method of irrigation were mostly adopted by vegetable growers while most of them had very low adoption of technical method of irrigation like, sprinkler, and drip irrigation.
The major constraint reported by vegetable growers were higher cost of installation of drip unit, lack of knowledge about chemicals used in drip irrigation, lack of knowledge about fertilizers used in drip irrigation, clogging of emitter or dripper, damage of laterals pipe line by rats, difficulties create in intercultural practices, low discharge of water at the end emitter, lack of guidance from extension agencies or dealers at in correct time, and lack of proper training about drip irrigation.
 
Date 2016-08-17T15:33:25Z
2016-08-17T15:33:25Z
2013
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/72841
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher JNKVV