Vol. 12, Special Issue 11 (2023)

Author(s):
Arpit Somtiya, Seema Naberia, Siddharth Namdeo, Ashish Kumar Nagar, Varsha More and Sanjana Shrivastava

Abstract:
IPM is a technology that is built on knowledge. It entails combining various disease and pest management techniques to combat major crop diseases and pests. The study was carried out to know the relationship between the characteristics of vegetable grower and their extent of adoption of IPM practices in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh over a complete sample of 120 beneficiaries during 2021. The result shows that education, experience of vegetable cultivation, social participation, training received about IPM practices, size of land holding, annual income, occupation, extension contact, mass media exposure, economic motivation, scientific orientation, risk orientation, knowledge level about IPM practices and attitude towards IPM practices had significant related with the extent of adoption of integrated pest management practices. While, characteristics viz; age, size of family and area under vegetable cultivation had non-significant relationship with adoption level of vegetable growers