Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
Desai AV, Sawant PA, Maske KV and Kharge AP

Abstract:
The present study explored level of use of improved sugarcane cultivation practices by farmers in Sindhudurg district. For the study Sindhudurg district were purposively selected from Konkan region of Maharashtra state. Two talukas viz., Vaibhavwadi and Kankavli from Sindhudurg district were selected purposively based on maximum area under sugarcane cultivation and five villages from each taluka were selected. From each village twelve respondents were selected randomly. The constituting total sample size is 120. The Ex-post-facto research design was used for the study. A well-structured questionnaire designed for study was used for collecting the data from respondents through personal interview method. The data collections from the respondents were edited tabulated and analyzed using suitable statistical tools like frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, chi-square and Kendall’s coefficient of concordance. The study noticed that, Level of use of the farmers concluded from the present study that majorities of respondents were having ‘full’ level of use of the practices namely, ‘ploughing at 25 to 30 cm depth’ (100.00 percent), ‘two to three harrowing’ (53.33 percent), planting in ‘January-February (suru)’ (100.00 percent), ‘ridge and furrow method of sugarcane planting’ (100.00 percent), Planting type ‘dry planting’ (56.67 percent), use of ‘CO-92005’ variety (100.00 percent), ’35,000-38,000 of sets/ha’ (60.00 percent), number of eye bud selected ‘2 eye bud’ (45.00 percent), ‘age of selected sets- 10 to 12 months’ (100.00 percent), spacing ‘22.7 cm between 2 sets × 90 cm between 2 rows’ (66.67 percent), seed treatment ‘Chemical treatment – Bavistin 0.1% @ 10 g/10L of water’ (55.83 percent), weed management ‘two to three hand weeding with the help of sickle’ (100.00 percent), earthing up operation ‘90 to 120 days after planting’ (100.00 percent), application of fertilizer dose of ‘suru-250:115:115 kg/ha NPK’ (100.00 percent), ‘at the time of planting 10% NPK (70.83)’, ‘first top dressing 6 weeks after planting, 20% NPK’ (74.17 percent), ‘second top dressing 10 weeks after planting, 30% NPK’ (91.66 percent), ‘third top dressing 14 weeks after planting, 40% NPK’ (87.50 percent), ‘broadcasting’ of fertilizer, (72.50 percent), ‘application of micronutrients 25Kg/ha FeSO4, 20 Kg/ha ZnSO4, 10Kg/ha MnSO4, 5Kg/ha Borax’ (69.17 percent), ‘surface irrigation method of irrigation' (89.17 percent), ‘interval between two irrigations, 8 to 10 days during summer’ (100.00 percent), application of ‘Chlorpyriphos (20 EC) 15ml in 10 litres of water for woolly aphid’ (50.84 percent), ‘application of lindane (6%) granules 16.6 Kg/ ha’ (53.34), application of ‘Phorate (10G) 25 kg/ha respectively, for control of white grub’ (79.17 percent), ‘metallic sound as maturity sign of sugarcane’ (100.00 percent), harvesting time of sugarcane for ‘suru-12 to 13 months’ (100.00 percent).