Adoption of chickpea production technology among farmers in central plain zone of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Uttar Pradesh state has a total area of 577 thousand ha, production of 475.4 thousand tones and yield 824 kg/ha under chickpea cultivation. The present study was undertaken to find out adoption of package and practices of chickpea production technology. Uttar Pradesh has fifth rank in chickpea production technology. The present study was conducted in central plain zone of Uttar Pradesh. There are nine agro-climate zones in the state. 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. Majority of farmers 72.685 per cent were found having medium level of adoption about over all chickpea production technology. independent variables, education, family size, social participation, size of land holding, annual income, extension contact, source of information utilized, experience in chickpea cultivation and livestock possession and training exposure had positive and significant association with the adoption level of the respondents at 1% level of probability.