Knowledge of FLDs farmers and fellow farmers about groundnut production technology

Abstract

Knowledge of the recommended technologies is a prerequisite to adoption process. The adoption of any technology depends on the individual development and acceptance of modern agricultural technology is the foremost important for increasing crop production. This is possible through the demonstration as it is an important and appropriate extension method, which make it possible to disseminate technology to user farmers and field day played important role for horizontal spread of technology. The study was conducted in Saurashtra region with groundnut growers 60 FLDs farmers and 120 fellow farmers. Multistage and purposive random sampling techniques were used. The study revealed that 66.67 per cent of the FLDs farmers had medium level of knowledge about groundnut production technology, while 21.66 per cent and 11.67 per cent of the FLDs farmers had high and low level of knowledge about groundnut production technology, respectively. While in case of fellow farmers, 58.33 per cent of the fellow farmers had medium level of knowledge about groundnut production technology, while 25.00 per cent and 16.67 per cent of the fellow farmers had low and high level of knowledge about groundnut production technology, respectively. The several profile characteristics of FLDs farmers education, training received, size of land holding, social participation, annual income, source of information, extension participation, innovativeness, scientific orientation and yield index had positive and significant relationship with their level of knowledge about groundnut production technology. While in case of fellow farmers education, training received, social participation, annual income, source of information, extension participation, innovativeness and yield index had positive and significant relationship with their level of knowledge about groundnut production technology.