1Research Scholar, C.S.A. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
2Professor, Department of Extension Education, N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India
3Principal Scientist ICAR-ATARI, Zone Iii, Kanpur
4Principal Scientists, Division of Agricultural extension, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi
5Research Scholar, Department of Extension Education, N.D. University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India
Potato is the most important stable and widely distributed food crop in the world with a capacity to slake off hunger among farmers. However, the productivity has stagnated and remained low due to the adoption of poor cultivation practices by farmers. To stave off this situation, better technologies and practices should be prioritized which already exists. In Uttar Pradesh, Kannauj district is anabundant producer of the potato crop. To assess the adoption level and knowledge gap of scientific potato cultivation practices the study was conducted in Jalalabad block of Kannauj district of Uttar Pradesh. A simple random sampling method was used to select 125 respondents out of total 1338 potato growers from the selected five villages. The finding revealed that the majority of the respondents have 100 per cent knowledge in mixed cropping, sequence cropping, and field preparation. There is a huge variation among the cultivation practices in respect of their adoption, the highest being 82.40 per cent for sequence cropping and the lowest 50.40 per cent for seed rate and seed treatment with the overall adoption of 68.30 per cent. Out of 16 independent variables four variable age, marital status, family type, and occupation were not significant but positively correlated with knowledge level. Only one variable education was found highly significant and positively correlated with adoption level.
Extent of adoption, level of knowledge, potato growers, scientific practices
