Relationship between Farmers’ Characteristics and IPM Adoption in Sugarcane Cultivation in Sitapur (UP)

Abstract

The Khairabad Development Block in the Uttar Pradesh district of Sitapur served as the study's location to ascertain the relationship between the socioeconomic characteristics of sugarcane farmers. A total of 20 sugarcane farmers from each of the five villages that were randomly chosen from this development block comprised the sample of 100 respondents. The information was gathered from sugarcane growers using the personal interview technique and a preplanned interview schedule. There were positive significant and significant relationships between education (0.341894*), farm power (0.048407*), knowledge of marital status (0.07568**), land holding (0.066307**), institutional participation (0.239366**), transportation facility (0.046606**), material possession (0.213142*), Economic Motivation (0.204439*), and risk orientation (0.223787*) of farmers with the adoption level of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices in sugarcane cultivation, whereas marital status (0.10184), type of family (0.076437), size of family (0.047357), economic motivation (0.195065), scientific orientation (0.189226), and risk orientation (0.053617) with adoption were positively non-significant.