Awareness and adoption of paddy growers about rice varieties developed by dbskkv, Dapoli

Abstract

Konkan region of Maharashtra state has typical agro-climatic conditions having characteristic of rice based farming and has no substitute due to heavy rainfall in the monsoon season. Rice is the main food grain crop of the region. The university has concentrated mostly on basic and applied research in rice by developing new high yielding varieties including hybrids and their package of practices. University has developed 31 varieties of rice crop of which, 23 varieties are improved, 5 varieties are hybrid and 3 varieties are suitable for kharland. This has helped to increase the productivity of the region since 1972. With this background present study was undertaken to know the status of rice varieties developed by Dr. Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli for Konkan region. The objective of this study awareness and adoption of paddy growers about rice varieties developed by DBSKKV, Dapoli. The study was conducted in three districts of Konkan region namely Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg and Raigad. From each districts four tahasil and five villages were selected randomly. From each villages 10 paddy growers were selected randomly. Thus, sample consist of 600 paddy growers. Data were collected by conducting personal interview. The finding of this study revealed that, 30.33 per cent of the respondents had knowledge about Karjat – 3 variety of DBSKKV, Dapoli, and 18.67 per cent Karjat -3 overall level the maximum number of respondents adopted.