Predictive Factors for Farmers’ Knowledge of Social Media for Sustainable Agricultural Development

The practice of green manuring is as old as that of the art of manuring crops. Crops grown for the purpose of restoring or increasing the organic matter content in soil are called green manure crops. Their use in cropping system is called green manuring. The present study was carried out in Navsari district of Gujarat State. Navsari district comprises of six talukas and out of these, two talukas viz., Jalalpore and Gandevi having higher number of green manuring growers were selected purposively. Total 120 green manuring growers were selected for the present study. In the correlation analysis it was found that age was non-significant correlated with their knowledge. Education, land holding, annual income, mass media exposure, economic motivation, innovativeness, crop produce, cropping intensity and irrigation facility were positively and significant. Moreover, such as social participation, extension participation and scientific orientation were positively and highly significant relationship with their knowledge.

Section: Mass Media Exposure and Knowledgesupporting

confidence: 57%

Relationship between the profile of green manuring growers and their level of knowledge towards sustainable agriculture

Chauhan¹,

Vyas²,

Chintakindi³

2022

“…This finding was in conformity with the findings Satasiya (2008), Deshmukh (2012), Chodvadiya et al (2020), Rathod et al (2021) and Patel and Vinaya (2022).…”

Section: Knowledge Level Of Groundnut Growers About Recommended Groun...supporting

confidence: 93%

Knowledge level of demonstrator and non-demonstrator groundnut growers under the scheme of NMOOP

Jalu¹,

Bariya²,

Chandravadia³

2022

India is a world leader in groundnut farming. It is major oilseed legume crop and meets 30 percent of edible oil requirements of the country. They rich in protein and vitamins A, B and minerals like Ca, Mg, etc. A multistage, purposively, proportionate and random sampling technique was selected for the study. The study was conducted in Saurashtra region of Gujarat state. Total 12 talukas were selected purposively in which maximum FLDs given under NMOOP and among them 16 villages were selected for the study. Total 160 respondents were selected in which 80 demonstrators and 80 non-demonstrator farmers were selected for this study. Ex-post facto research design was used and data were collected by personal contact. The result revealed that the majority of demonstrator (68.75 per cent) and non-demonstrator (58.75 per cent) farmers had medium level of knowledge about the recommended groundnut production technology, whereas 17.50 per cent of demonstrator and 13.75 per cent of non-demonstrator farmers had high levels knowledge about recommended groundnut production technology. While 13.75 per cent and 27.50 per cent of demonstrator and non-demonstrator farmers had low level of knowledge about recommended groundnut production technology.

“…The findings of this study support the findings of Kumawat (2015) Patel and Vinaya (2022) and Vegad et al (2021). The data incorporated in Table explained that maximum of vegetable growers, 21.66 per cent were educated up to primary school, 16.66 per cent high school, 14.17 per cent were illiterate, 12.50 per cent can read only, 11.67 per cent were can read and write only, 11.67 per cent were educated up to middle school, 7.50 per cent were graduate and 4.17 per cent were above graduate.…”

Section: Agesupporting

confidence: 92%

Knowledge level of vegetable growers about drip irrigation

Natwadia¹,

Sharma²,

Pramod³

2022

Water is the most precious, crucial and limiting natural resource, mainly important for agricultural production and day-to-day living of human beings. Drip irrigation is precise and regulated application of water and plant nutrients at frequent intervals and low pressure through emitters/drippers into the root zone of the plant with the help of close network of pipes. The present study was conducted in four adopted villages of SKNAU, Jobner. The total of 120 farmer respondents were selected from four selected villages by using of random sampling through proportional allocation method. The study revealed that majority (63.33 per cent) of vegetable growers belonged to middle aged group, 21.66 per cent were educated up to primary level, 71.67 per cent were doing Agriculture ,83.33 per cent belonged to medium income group, 39.17 per cent were medium land holding farmers and (73.34%) were member of one organization. It may be concluded that the majority of the vegetable growers (70.83%) were medium level of knowledge on drip system of irrigation. the age was found negatively and size of land holding’ was positively non-significant, furthermore, the independent variables like, Education, Occupation, Annual Income and Social participation were found in positive and significant relationship with the knowledge drip system of irrigation by the vegetable growers.