Knowledge level of women chilli growers of Kundgol, Karnataka

The present investigations were undertaken to study the socio-personal characteristics and knowledge level of 150 women chilli growers of Kundgol Taluk of Dharwad district, Karnataka through personal interview method. Kundgol Taluk is famous for chilli cultivation especially Byadagi variety of chilli. The study revealed that majority of the respondents were within the age group of 36–50 years, belonged to forward caste and had education up to primary level. More than fifty per cent of the farm women belonged to joint and medium size families. The occupation of all the sample families was agriculture of which 36.00 per cent families possessed small landholding and most (59.33%) of them had an annual family income up to Rs 132000 ie under low income category. The study also revealed that 55.30 per cent of farm women had medium knowledge about chilli cultivation practices. All of them had knowledge about yield per acre of chilli and 99.33 per cent had knowledge about interval for picking chilli. Knowledge of farm women was seen having positive significant relationship with extension participation, social participation and contact with extension agencies but showed a negative and significant relationship with annual income.