Knowledge of farmers towards improved green gram production practices in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha to assess farmer’s knowledge regarding improved green gram production practices. The researcher purposively selected 120 respondents from 6 villages under Shyamakhunta block, focusing on areas with high number of green gram growers. The study findings revealed that the majority of respondents belong to various socio-economic profiles. Most of the respondents fall within age of 36-55 years (42.50%) having highest male respondents (52.50%) belongs to OBC caste (66.67%), have family size upto 5 member (63.33%), having nuclear family type (60%), have high school (39.16%), lived in cemented house (87.56%), exclusively engaged in farming (50.75%), having income upto 48000 (58.55%). Source of information, risk bearing capacity, progressiveness and mass media exposure were at a medium level for 73.24%, 65.73%, 41.67% & 51.66% whereas scientific orientation were at a low level for 51.45%. Regarding knowledge, the study found that the highest level of knowledge was about field preparation (91.67%) and overall a majority of respondents (76.66%) have medium level of knowledge. The study also revealed significant and positive correlation between various variables and farmer’s knowledge of recommended green gram production practices. Age, gender, risk bearing capacity, scientific orientation, mass media exposure had shown a highly significant correlation with knowledge towards recommended green gram production practices.