Extent of Adoption of Hybrid Rice and Factors Affecting its Adoption: A Micro Study of Marginal and Small Farmers

The study was conducted on fifty farmers comprising 33 marginal and 17 small farmers located in five villages of Kanke block of Ranchi. The study revealed that adoption level of hybrid rice was nearly 98 per cent on the sample farmers. However, farmers of both groups were very inclined in adoption of hybrid rice on their farms. The reason was mainly due to high yielding capacity of hybrid rice in respect to local varieties and even also improved varieties of rice. The study further reveled that area of hybrid rice on the sample farmers was positively associated with size of operational holding and fund available with the farmers for meeting the expenditure involved in adoption of hybrid rice on the farms.