Impact of industrial wastewaters on the fish Poecilia reticulate: Integrating wastewater toxicity with ecological safety

Abstract

The study entitled, “Technology adoption gap in paddy in west Godavari district in Andhra pradesh” was purposively conducted in Chagallu mandal of west Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh. For present study, 150 farmers were selected from 6 villages by using Nth method of random sampling. The main objective to study the technological gap in paddy cultivation was as certained by using exploratory design of social research. High gap was established in recommended technology such as of improved hybrid varieties, seed and seed treatment, nursery management, transplanting, IPM, INM, etc. The main reason behind existence of gap were unavailability of labours, costly seeds of improved hybrids varieties, lack of irrigation facilities, unequal distribution of rainfall, high cost of fertilizer and weedicides as experienced by majority of the paddy grower The results of the relational analysis revealed that the variables namely land holding, annual income, social participation, socio-economic status, scientific orientation, economic motivation and sources of information had significant influence of knowledge.