Major constraints faced by sugarcane growers in Bagaha- I block District West Champaran

Abstract

The goal of the current study was to determine the barriers to better production and integrated insect-pest/disease management technology. 120 sugarcane growers from five distinct villages within the Tirupati sugar mill's command area in Bihar were specifically chosen through interviews. The limitations that were faced by The majority of respondents cited irregular or unseasonable heavy rainfall, followed by a lack of safe or biopesticides at the local market, erratic electricity supply, a lack of fertilisers in the market, a lack of labour in time for intercultural operations, etc. as reasons for adopting sugarcane production and protection technologies. Under technical constraints, the sugarcane growers' biggest challenges were identifying harmful insect pests and diseases, as well as their economic threshold level and economic injury level (90.83%), and their lack of knowledge about beneficial insects (97.50%), which was followed by improved IPM practices (95.00%). Under financial restrictions, the majority of respondents (95.83%) experienced issues with the high cost of insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides, which were followed by the high cost of farm equipment (93.33%), fertilisers (86.66%), agricultural labour (85.00%), and sugarcane seed setts (75.00%).