Involvement of Bt. cotton farmers in feedback management

Abstract

Study entitled “Involvement of Farmers in Feedback Management with Reference to Bt cotton” was undertaken in Umarkhed Panchayat samiti in Yavatmal district of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state. Ex-post facto research design was used for the same. The farmers growing Bt cotton since last three years consecutively were identified and from each selected village 12 Bt cotton growers as respondents were selected randomly to constitute sample size of 120 respondents. The data from Bt cotton growers were collected by personal interview method. In case of involvement of farmers in feedback management relatively higher proportions of the respondents (57.50%) were moderately involved in feedback management. Little less than one fourth of the respondents (25.83%) had low level of involvement in feedback management and 16.67 per cent of the respondents had high level of involvement in the feedback management.