Knowledge of adopter and non-adopter farmers regarding super seeder for crop residue management

Abstract

The agriculture ecosystem has observed a transformative shift with the introduction of advanced technologies for sustainability and one such innovation making like a wave is Super Seeder. Keeping in mind the environment sustainability through the agricultural technologies and knowledge of farmers, a study was conducted in Karnal district of Haryana state among 80 adopter and non- adopter farmers of Super seeder. Results revealed that one fourth of the respondents had low level of knowledge, while 45.00 percent of the respondents had medium level of knowledge and rest (30.00%) of the respondents demonstrated high level of knowledge regarding super seeder technology. Age, education, subsidiary occupation, size of landholdings, annual income, social participation, mass media exposure and socio-economic status were significantly associated with level of knowledge among respondents. It was found that 53.85 percent of the respondents with high socio-economic status had high level of knowledge. The mean comparison of level of knowledge among adopters and non-adopters showed that the mean score of knowledge among adopters was 23.03, with a standard error of 0.76, whereas the mean score of knowledge among non-adopters was 21.33, with a standard error of 0.55. Furthermore, the z-value for level of knowledge was 2.02*, indicating that level of knowledge was statistically significant at 5% level.