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KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF SALT AFFECTED SOIL RECLAMATION PRACTICES FOLLOWED BY FARMERS FROM SANGLI DISTRICT

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Title KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF SALT AFFECTED SOIL RECLAMATION PRACTICES FOLLOWED BY FARMERS FROM SANGLI DISTRICT
 
Creator Pawar, Y.B.
 
Contributor Khalache, P.G.
 
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Description Soil is the crucial national resource and therefore, no country can afford to neglect or waste of it. But now-a-days a salt affected soil problem is becoming more actute in canal command area of Maharashtra. In India, it is estimated that saline lands extents over 8.5 m ha in country while in Maharashtra it is 6 lakh ha with increase of 10 per cent every year due to water logging. The present investigation was conducted with the view to study the knowledge and adoption of salt affected soil reclamation practices of the respondent farmers having area under salt affected soil to study the personal, socioeconomic profile and situational attributes of the respondents, to study the extent of adoption about the salt affected soil reclamation technology by the respondents. The present study was conducted in Miraj, Wulwa and Palus tahsils of Sangli district. The 5 villages from each tahsils were selected on purposive basis i.e. maximum area under salt affected soil. In all 15 villages were selected for study. From each selected village 9 farmers were selected on the basis of maximum salt affected fields. Hence, in all three tahsils, 15 villages and 135 respondents were selected for the present study. The data were collected with the help of well constructed and pre-tested interview schedule. The collected data were processed through primary and secondary tables and statistically analyzed. The study reveals that majority of the respondents were from middle age group, educated upto secondary school level, used medium sources of information, having medium farm size, medium annual income, medium experience in farming, medium experience in salt affected soil cultivation, medium experience in soil reclamation, medium risk orientation, medium scientific orientation, medium level of knowledge, medium area under salt affected soils. It was observed that medium level of adoption followed by the respondents. It was observed that majority of the respondents were dependent on Agricultural Assistants of Agriculture Department, progressive farmers, TV, newspaper for source of information. It was seen that the practices which were known to all of the respondents (100.00 per cent) were soil leveling, crop rotation. The practice which were known to majority of the respondents were crop rotation (72.52 per cent), balance use of chemical fertilizers (69.56 per cent), application of green manuring (68.08 per cent), application of gypsum (65.86 per cent), use of compost culture (56.24 per cent), irrigation management (45.14 per cent), avoid use of salty water in irrigation sources (42.28 per cent).
 
Date 2018-04-17T04:38:53Z
2018-04-17T04:38:53Z
2010
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810043727
 
Language en
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri.