Assessment of adoption level of potato growers and their adoption gap in potato production technology.

摘要

The study was carried out during 2004-05 in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh to assess the adoption level of potato growers and their adoption gap in potato production technologies. Study reveals that the highest adoption level was found in soil selection of large potato growers (83.33%) and lowest 66.00% of marginal potato growers. The adoption level of small and medium potato growers were 71.67 and 81.33% respectively. The average adoption level of large potato growers were found to be highest 71.10% and lowest 51.93% of marginal potato growers, the adoption level of small and medium potato growers were 60.61 and 64.80% respectively. The highest adoption mean values were found in manures and fertilizers of all categories potato growers i.e. 8.00, 8.98, 10.53 and 11.25 marginal, small, medium and large potato growers respectively. The lowest mean values were found to be 4.20, 3.80, 3.75 and 3.00 large, medium, small and marginal potato growers with respect to time of fertilizers and manures application, water management and use of improved implements in marginal and small potato growers respectively. The average adoption mean values of large potato growers were found highest 65.42, and lowest 47.78 of the marginal potato growers. The adoption mean values of small and medium farmers were 55.77 and 59.62, respectively. The highest adoption gaps were found in plant protection measures of all categories potato growers i.e. 67.75, 59.25, 56.67 and 53.08% marginal, small, medium and large potato growers respectively. The lowest adoption gaps were found in soil selection of all categories potato growers i.e. 35.67, 25.83, 19.16 and 11.67% in marginal, small, medium and large potato growers. The average adoption gaps of marginal potato growers were found to be highest 48.06% and lowest 28.75% of large potato growers, the adoption gaps of small and medium potato growers were 39.57 and 35.19% respectively.