Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
H Chandan Gowda, K Shivaramu and B Krishnamurthy

Abstract:
The present study was conducted in Mandya, Chikkaballapura and Tumakuru districts of Karnataka state in 2022-23 to analyze the perception of farmers towards soil testing in different farming situations and to find out the relationship and extent of contribution of profile characteristics of farmers on their perception towards soil testing. Sixty soil tested farmers from each of the districts were personally interviewed using a pre-tested interview schedule. The results revealed that a vast majority of farmers (76.10%) had good to better perception towards soil testing. The correlation test revealed that 14 out of 19 independent variables were found to be have a significant (p<0.05) to highly significant (p<0.01) relationship with the perception of farmers towards soil testing in all three situations. Further, all the 19 profile characteristics of farmers had contributed to the tune of 73.80, 74.90 and 69.90 percent in assured, protected and rainfed situations respectively in developing better perception towards soil testing. The study implies how soil testing is an important practice to be adopted by the majority of farmers.