Economic Affairs
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 59
  • Issue: 4

Constraints for adoption of recommended crop production technologies faced by the potato growers in the sub-tropical zone of Jammu division

  • Author:
  • Quadri Javeed Ahmad Peer1,, Sheikh Muzaffar Ahmad1, M H Chesti2, Jasvinder Kaur3, Anil Bhat4
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 675 to 680

1Div. of Agriculture Statistics, Economics and Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, SKUAST-Kashmir, Wadura, India

2Directorate of Extension Education. SKUAST-Kashmir, Wadura, India

3Div. of Agri Ext. Edu, H.A.U., Haryana, India

4Div. of Agri Economics, SKUAST-Jammu, Main Campus, Chatha, India

*Corresponding author: qadrijavid2008@gmail.com

Online published on 5 January, 2015.

Abstract

The present study was conducted during 2011–2012 in purposively selected sub-divisions of Jammu province, Jammu and Kashmir covering 15 villages and a sample of 225 potato growers was selected through proportionate random sampling method. The study revealed that the major constraints for the adoption of crop production technologies faced by the potato growers were complicated seed treatment technique (100.00%), non-availability of fertilizers at proper time (76%), financial problem (72.89%), non-availability of insecticides/pesticides at proper time (64.64%), high cost of fertilizers (61.77%), high cost of seed (60.04%), high cost of fungicides (57.78%) and labour problem (54.66%).

Keywords

Constraints, Potato, Adoption and Production technologies