Constraints faced by commercial vegetable growers in uses of chemical pesticides on central part of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

The present study was conducted in 2023-24 to scrutinize the Constraints faced by commercial vegetable growers in uses of chemical pesticides Uttar Pradesh state comprised of seventy-five districts, there are 21 districts in central Part of Uttar Pradesh out of these 4 district were selected by table randomly sampling. Etawah, Kanpur Nager, Unnao and Jhanshi district were selected randomly for the study to understand the ground reality of commercial vegetable growers in uses of chemical pesticides in these districts. Data for the study was collected from a sample of 400 vegetable growers. The findings of the study reveal with knowledge level, an overwhelming majority of the respondents (74.43%) were agreed with the statements that ‘Lack of training of scientific vegetable production technology’, followed by ‘Lack of information sources of vegetables production technology at village level.’ (72.55%) at ranked second. The III, IV and V ranks were ascribed to the constraint ‘Lack of awareness campaign organized by Govt./ NGOs’(71.25), ‘Lack of need assessment about safe plant protection measures (70.55)’ and ‘Lack of social awareness of side effects of pesticides’(68.50). Adoption level an overwhelming majority of the respondents (77.50%) were agreed with the statements that ‘Lack of credit facility for vegetable growers’ ranked at 1st place was the common problem, followed by ‘Plant protection equipment can be expensive’ (75.24%) at ranked second. The III, IV and V ranks were ascribed to the constraint ‘Lack of government training programs regarding scientific use of pesticides’ (72.00), Lack of transportation facilities’ (69.50) and Lack of good quality of pesticides (68.25) respectively. The constraints of knowledge level and adoption level of commercial vegetable growers in chemical pesticides.