Correlates of technological gap in cultivation of Ajwain crop by farmers of Amravati and Buldhana district

Abstract

The study on “Technological Gap in Cultivation of Ajwain Crop” was purposively conducted in Amravati and Buldhana district of Maharashtra state. An exploratory research design was adopted for the study. A purposive sample of 120 Ajwain growers from villages of Daryapur and Shegaon taluks of Amravati and Buldhana districts respectively were drawn and the data were collected with the help of structured interview schedule and used for drawing the conclusions. In case of coefficient of correlation, it is found that out of 12 independent variables land holding, availability of irrigation, sources of information innovativeness and knowledge are negatively significant at 0.01 level of probability. The variables education, area under Ajwain, experience in Ajwain cultivation, annual income, economic motivation and market orientation were found to be negatively significant at 0.05 level of probability.