Constraints faced by the farmers’ in the use of photovoltaic water pumping system in Haryana

The study was conducted in purposively selected districts of Hisar, Rohtak and Jhajjar Haryana state involving 61, 47 and 33 numbers of PWPS adopter farmers from each district, respectively along with an equal number of non beneficiaries adjoining to the beneficiaries. The Technical Constraints reported by adopter farmers were the technology work in less than 8 meters water table and it does not works in cold/winter days. Similar results were also obtained in case of non adopter respondents. “High cost of PWPS” was found to be the most serious financial constraint as observed by both adopter and non adopter respondents. “Lack of extension literature” and “Lack of package of practices for PWPS irrigation farming system” were considered to be the major extension constraints among the adopter respondents. However, in case of non adopter farmers, “Lack of attention of mass media” was found to be the most serious extension constraint.