Abstract
The present study is carried out in Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh to know the adoption of crop practice and government scheme. And found that, overall adoption of technology and schemes launched by the government, indicates that majority of the respondents have not adopted the sugarcane varieties as per scientific recommendation for their fields. As regards the adoption of seed rate, the members of gram sabha were found is having a slight edge over members of village panchayat. 2/3rd of respondents of gram sabha and village panchayat made full dose use of Nitrogen. There was none who did not use Nitrogenous fertilizer. Use of Phosphatic fertilizer was reported by more than 60.00 percent by both side members use of potassic fertilizers was noticed less: K.V.Ks. should pursue the farmers for soil testing and accordingly make use of N.P.K. Fertilizers. No difference was reported in terms of time and method of application by respondents under gram sabha and village panchayat. As per x2 value result were observed non-significant. Overall adoption of crop protection practice was observed that 50.19, 42.41 and 39.08 percent respondents have fully adopted the insecticide technology to control termite, root borer and pyrila or leaf hoper respectively. Through extensive, education efforts rest of the respondents should be motivated to adopt the insecticide technology observed. X2 value does not shows significant result. Only 31 percent respondents have fully adopted the disease control practice, while below 57 percent have not adopted the disease control practice
No doubt India lives in the villages and about 50 percent of the 6.41 Lac villages of the country are situated in different terrain characterized by poor socio-economic condition. In 1960, during the green revolution, India managed to achieve selfsufficiency in food grain production by leveraging modern methods of agriculture like chemical fertilizers and pesticides, higher quality seed, new tillage and harvesting equipment, irrigation methods and storage of production etc. The technology in agriculture field affects many areas, such as fertilizers, pesticides, seed technology, biotechnology and genetic engineering have resulted in pest resistance and increased crop yields. Mechanization has led to efficient tilling, harvesting, and a reduction in manual labour. Irrigation methods and transportation systems have improved, processing machinery has reduced wastage, etc. and the effect is visible in all areas. According to the census (2011) the total population of India is 121, 01, 93,422 crore, as was recorded 102, 70, 15, 247 crore in the census (2001) compared to census (2011). It shows an increase of 18.1 crore. According to the (census, 2011) the total literacy is 74.04 as compared to 64.8 percent literacy in census (2001). The working population of India in (2011) stood at 46.02 crore, 38.02 percent of the total population.
Keywords
Technology, Adoption, Schemes, Respondents
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