Knowledge level of farmers on chickpea production technology in central plain zone of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) generally known as “Chana” / “Gram” or “Bengal Gram” is an important leguminous food grains in India. Chickpea is the world’s third most important food legume with 96% cultivation in the developing countries. Uttar Pradesh is the fifth rank in chickpea production. The study was conducted in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). The economy of U.P. is predominately agrarian. In this region there are sixteen districts, out of which Kanpur Dehat and Unnao were randomly selected for the present study. From each of the selected districts three blocks were randomly selected. From each of the selected blocks three villages were selected randomly and from each of the selected villages, 12 respondents were selected randomly for the so as a total (216) respondents were selected for present study. Finding The findings revealed that majority of 73.611 per cent of respondents had medium level of overall knowledge level, major knowledge about sowing method 98.1 per cent, harvesting time, method and handling 88.175 per cent, suitable soil 83.1 per cent, storage observed 81.7 per cent, land preparation 80.55 per cent and sowing time 78.2 per cent. The independent variable, extension contact had positive and significant association with the knowledge level of the respondents at 5% level of probability. The independent variables viz., education, size of land holding, annual income, attitude, sources of information utilized and training had positive and significant association with the knowledge level of the respondents at 1% level of probability.