Factors affecting the extent of adoption about mango post-harvest management practices

Abstract

Fruits are of great importance in human nutrition. India is the second largest producer of fruits. Mango is world's leading fruit-crop. India occupies 1.62 million hectares area under mango fruit with a production of 12.78 million tonnes, which is 37.6 per cent of total production under fruits. Malihabad and Mal block were selected on the basis of maximum area under mango cultivation. Twenty villages having maximum area under mango cultivation were selected from each identified blocks. The result shows that majority of the respondents adopted mango cultivation technologies at medium level. The level of adoption was noted hight in the category of literate farmers. This may be on account of possession of high extent of knowledge by the mango growers who are treated as literates in the present investigation. It was also found that there was a highly significant difference in level of adoption between about mango cultivation technology. The study showed that majority of mango growers were dominated in medium category of adoption