Vol. 12, Special Issue 12 (2023)

Author(s):
DK Dongre, SH Kamble, RD Shelke and M Abhinaya Sree

Abstract:
Pigeonpea is largely grown in Parbhani district of Maharashtra state. The present study has been made to measure the socio-economic characteristics of pigeonpea growers such as age, education, family size, farm size, cropping pattern, farming experience and IPM farming experience etc. of 60 pigeonpea growers from 2 village, sayala and wadgaon tarfe takli of Parbhani district. The primary data were collected from the selected pigeonpea growers with the help of an interview schedule by personal interview method. The results revealed that in case of pigeonpea growers, the overall average age of the farmers was 53.64 years. The average education adopted by farmers ranges from 7^th class to 10^th class. The average family size of pigeonpea growers was 5.61. The average size of land holding owned by pigeonpea grower was 3.46 ha. Farming experience years of pigeonpea growers counts on an average 35.24 years in overall level. IPM experience measures an average 1.68 years by pigeon pea growers.