SUMMARY :The present study was conducted in Nanded district of Marathwada region of Maharashtra State with an objective to study the constraints faced by banana growers in adoption of banana production technology and obtained their suggestions to overcome these constraints. The data were collected with the help of interview schedule. The result of the study depicted that majority of the banana growers faced the constraints of load shedding of electricity during irrigation, followed by non-availability of suckers at the time of planting, high cost of wages for preparatory tillage operations, high cost of FYM or compost and chemical fertilizers and poor quality of suckers for planting. The data regarding suggestions of the respondents given to overcome the constraints faced by them in adoption of banana production technology revealed that information regarding irrigation should be given in time by extension agencies, followed by tissue culture plants should be made available in sufficient quantity, government should provide NADEP and vermicompost unit and pesticide should be provided at low cost, message alerts through SMS about insect, pest and control measures should be given to farmers in time, good quality sucker should be supplied to farmers in time and reducing the cost of fertilizer were the major suggestions.
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The present study was conducted with specific objectives to study knowledge and adoption of sugarcane production technology. For this study Latur district was selected and from Latur district two talukas viz., Chakur and Udgir were selected. From these two talukas twelve villages were selected randomly and ten respondents from each village were selected, i.e. 120 respondents from 12 villages constituted the sample for the study. Ex-Post Facto research design was used for the research study. The major constraints faced by respondents in adoption of sugarcane production technologies were lack of knowledge about the identification of insect and pest, lack of availability water and lack of knowledge about scientific plant protection measures. The majority of the respondents suggested that information should be provided about identification of insect and pests of sugarcane crop and their proper control measures, permanent water resources should be available i.e. farm pond and to provide the information about sett treatment.
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