Vol. 11, Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Akshay Vithalkar, Vidyanand Manvar and Abhishek Hiwarale

Abstract:
The present study was conducted on “Knowledge and adoption of mandarin production technology by the growers” was purposively conducted in Yavatmal district of Vidarbha region. The study was conduted in Digras, Babulgaon, Ner talukas. The sample constituted 120 mandarin growers from 12 villages. Ex-post facto research Design was used for present study. Data from the respondents were collected by personally interviewing with the help of structured and pretested interview schedule. Collected data were classified, tabulated and analysed by using statistical methods like frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficient. It can be concluded that the constraints faced by the mandarin growers in adoption of the recommended package of practices of mandarin shows that all of respondents 100 percent faced the constraint of not availability market storage facility, 95.00 percent of respondents face high cost of transportation and 88.33 percent of respondents faced the constraint of lack of training followed by 82.50 percent of the respondents faced the constraints of high cost of labour for orchard operation, 80 percent of respondents face the constraints of location research station at large distance. While 79.16 percent of respondents face the constraints of lack of awareness about crop insurance scheme. Nearly 72.50 percent of respondents face the constraints of Irregularity of filed visit by concerned authority and 68.33 percent of respondents face the lack of participation in extension activity and more than half of the respondents that is 54.16 faces the lack of awareness about latest technologies.