Adoption of integrated disease management practices of rice crop in Lailunga block of Raigarh District (Chhattisgarh)

Abstract

A study on adoption of integrated disease management practices in rice crop was conducted in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh covering one block, six purposively selected villages, and 120 randomly selected respondents to know the adoption of integrated disease management practices of the respondents as well as its associated correlates. A structured and pre-tested interview schedule was used to collect the data. The findings inferred that 60.00 percent of the respondents were middle aged, literates 69.17 per cent, Farming as a major occupation 58.33 percent marginal farmer. Most of the respondents 50.00 per cent belonged to low member group. 69.17 per cent medium social participation, 67.05 percent medium innovativeness. Major of the respondents have medium level of adoption of Integrated Disease Management Practices. The study also revealed that socio-economic variables like, age, education, annual income, mass media exposure, innovativeness, knowledge were found significant relationship with adoption behaviour of the respondents.