Farmers’ perception of constraints affecting adoption of green fodder production technologies in Gorakhpur Region of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

The production and productivity of green fodder can be increased by ensuring adoption of production technology and by overcoming the constraints. The present study was conducted by interviewing 200 randomly selected green fodder crop cultivating farmers of Gorakhpur district, to know the adoption level and constraints experienced by them. It was found that 87.5% of respondents expressed that wild and stray animals were the primary constraint for lesser adoption of fodder production technology in area. About 80 per cent of farmers identified small landholding among them as the second most important reason for less adoption of fodder technology. The main reason for less Knowledge of fodder production technologies were lack of awareness about improved technologies followed by lack of on-farm guidance/training, lack of lesser resources and lesser literacy among them. The correlation between knowledge gap and adoption gap was highly significant and positive.