Extent of Adoption of Recommended Groundnut Production Technology among the Farmers of Sehore District of M.P. India

Versha Patel, Sandhya Choudhary, Dr. Abhay Wankhede, Dr. V. K. Swarnakar

Abstract: Oilseeds are the second most important and the largest agri-commodity of India after cereals. Oilseed crops play a very important role in the agricultural economy of India which has the distinction of having large area under oilseed crops. The diverse agro-ecological conditions in the country are favourable for growing nine annual oilseeds which include seven edible oilseeds viz. groundnut, rapeseed mustard, soybean, sunflower, sesame, safflower and niger and two non-edible oilseeds, castor and linseed. The present study was conducted in Ashta block of Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh during 2016-17. 10 villages were selected randomly and 160 farmers were selected by using proportionate allocation method. Present study indicated that a considerable percentage (61.88%) of respondents had medium level of adoption about recommended groundnut production technology, whereas 19.37 and 18.75 per cent of them had low and high level of adoption respectively.

Keywords: Recommended groundnut practices- groundnut production technology, Knowledge- understandable information, Adoption- It was operationalized as the degree of the use of recommended practices