Study on the extent of adoption of recommended package of practices of greengram by the farmers in Nagaon district of Assam

The study was carried out to see the extent of adoption of recommended package of practices of greengram, variables influencing the extent of adoption and the problems faced by the farmers. The present study was conducted Nagaon district of Assam. The survey was conducted in the month of February to March 2016. The study revealed that majority of the respondents (63.33%) exhibited medium level of extent of adoption of recommended package of practices of greengram. The cent per cent of the farmers adopted sowing time and land preparation in case of greengram. Recommended seed rate, manual weeding operation and FYM were adopted by 95.85 per cent, 70.83 per cent and 62.50 per cent, respectively. While in case of growing of HYV, 30.83 per cent adopted HYV of greengram. Nobody was found to adopt practices like seed inoculation with rhizobium, fertilizer application with rhizobium, chemical weed control and protection against storage-pests. The most important problems faced by majority of the pulse growers which ranked 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd were non-availability of quality seeds, lack of irrigation facility and lack of knowledge on scientific cultivation of pulses. A positive and significant relationship was found between extent of adoption and size of operational land holding, urban contact, knowledge on pulse crops and annual farm income. On the other hand, age, education level, family size, area under pulse crops, sources of finance, innovation proneness and risk orientation could not establish any significant relationship with the extent of adoption of scientific cultivation of pulse crops.