Adoption and constraints in agricultural technology with special reference to rotavator among farmers in Haryana

In Indian farming, the preparation of seed beds for deep tillage using additional machinery and tillage tools are increased. Rotary tiller or rotavator is one of the tilling machines most suitable for seedbed preparation. The rotavator prepares the field in single operation. It carries out secondary tillage operations such as harrowing and leveling in single operation. It destroys weeds, incorporates left-over stubbles of previous crop, conserves soil moisture and pulverizes soil. It prepares seed bed in both wet and dry conditions. It saves time, labour and cost. Keeping in view the advantages of rotavator a study was conducted among 80 rotavator adopters in Kaithal district of Haryana was conducted to know the level of adoption and socio economic factors affecting its adoption along with its constraints. Results reveled that maximum number of the respondents (43.75%) had medium level of adoption level followed by high (28.75%) and low (27.50%) level of adoption. Results show that respondents had favorable attitude towards rotavator adotion. Overwhelming majority of the respondent (92.50%) reported that rotavator had diesel required up to 6 l/acre while 78.75 per cent respondent told that as compare to rotavator cultivator/harrow required 6.1-9 l/acre. Majority of the respondents (86.25%) depicted that rotavator required less time i.e. 30-45 minute/acre while3/4th of the respondents (75.00%) noticed that cultivator /harrow required 61-90 minute /acre. Regarding water applied, eighty five percent of the respondents observed that they apply water only 3-4 times whereas in drill/harrow (75.0%) it was noticed 4-6 times. 90 per cent of the respondents reported that government provide subsidy up to 40000 while for cultivator/harrow they had no subsidy.