Study the relationship between adoption level and Scio-economic profile of trained and untrained farmers of northern Karnataka, India

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Northern Karnataka. Vijayapur and Bagalkot districts were selected purposively as the training has been organized by the KVKs and AEECs of both UAS Dharwad and UHS Bagalkot. The list of trained framers will be obtained from these centers. Depending upon area of activities where the farmers are trained based on that 30 trained and 30 untrained farmers were selected randomly from respective district. Thus, the sample size is 120 farmers. The data was collected by personal interview method. Research findings reported that the independent variables like education, extension participation and mass media participation shows highly significant and positive relationship with adoption level at 0.01 level of probability. Farming experience and cossmopolitness shows positive and significant relationship with adoption level in four different components of training at 0.05 level of probability. Other variables like age, land holing and annual income showed non-significant relationship with adoption level in both trained and untrained farmers.