Constraints in adoption of vegetable production technologies by the farmers in district Jalandhar, Punjab

The present study was conducted in the adopted villages of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Jalandhar, Punjab. Under the study five adopted villages namely Dalla, Kot Badal Khan, Mehsampur, Kandola Kalan and Kaimwala were selected from different blocks. An adequate number of farming families from each village was randomly selected which formed sample size of 125 respondents. In these operational areas yield of vegetable crops was below the potential yield of each crop. Non-adoption of scientific and recommended package of practices of vegetable cultivation lead to wide gap between the yield obtained by vegetable growers than the potential yield. Productivity could be increased by following proper cultivation practices right from sowing to harvesting including use of improved varieties. The data on major constraints like technical, input, financial, marketing and socio-cultural constraints were collected from each respondent through personal interview method with the help of pre-tested structured schedule. It was observed that technical was the most important constraint as it was ranked first. This was followed by input, financial, marketing and socio-cultural constraints which were ranked II, III and IV respectively by the respondents.