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Perception Dynamics of Farmers Affecting Sustainability of Mustard Production: An Analytical Study

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Title Perception Dynamics of Farmers Affecting Sustainability of Mustard Production: An Analytical Study
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Creator Ashok Kumar Sharma, Jitendra Chauhan and Vinod Kumar
 
Subject Mustard; Perception; Sustainability; Adoption; Factors
 
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Oilseed sector as a whole and rapeseed–mustard in particular, has witnessed a significant increase in production
in the last decade. However research results show that there is vast scope to increase the present productivity level
of rapeseed-mustard in the country. Despite the technological advancement in mustard for last two decades to
attain higher yields, the vast gap exists between the actual yields obtained at farmer’s field and the yield obtained
at the research farms which shows the low adoption of recommended technologies by the farmers. The importance
of agricultural technologies in the development process cannot be overemphasized. This study has sought to
ascertain respondents’ perceptions on reasons affecting sustainability of mustard production based on sample of
120 farmer respondents from Bharatpur and Agra district. The study reported that adoption of time of sowing
recommendation was maximum with 82.5 MPS followed by irrigation practices (78.2 MPS).The adoption of improved
varieties of mustard was also high (75.7 MPS). The level of adoption of seed rate & spacing (66.7 MPS) and
harvesting & threshing (56.9 MPS) was medium. There was very low adoption in case of pest management, soil
treatment, and disease management with MPS 16.9, 10.8 and 8.8, respectively. The study reported that overall and
important constraints experienced by the respondents were, low selling price (93.2%) and high cost of cultivation
(88.8%) as economic, non-availability of pure seeds at sowing time (88.1%) and inadequate supply of fertilizers
(83.8%) as infrastructural, high temperature at the time of sowing (88.8%) and poor fertility of soil (73.2%) as
agro-climatic, lack of technological know-how (87.5%) and lack of visit by extension personnel to the village
(84.4%) as technological constraints. Therefore, a suitable strategy involving all concerned agencies should be
devised to overcome these constraints to increase the level of adoption of recommended practices.
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Date 2018-11-19T09:28:12Z
2018-11-19T09:28:12Z
2013-09-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 4
0972-2181
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/12062
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Indian Research Journal of Extension Education