Association of Acquaintance and Acceptance of Biofertilizers with Their Personal Profiles of Biofertilizer Users in South Gujarat

Although large hectares of area are under cultivation in this country, the yield per hectare for many crops is lower than expected level. This is because of lack of adoption of new, improved practices, advanced techniques, use of non-productive soils, decreasing soil conditions etc. It is possible to increase yield per unit area by adopting new production technologies viz., use of biofertilizers, vermicompost, organic farming, bio-control remedies, genetically modified crops etc in golden era of organic farming. Hence, there is increasing demand for organic foods. Therefore, there is a need of certain supplements to the chemical fertilizers with organic manures. In this case, bio-fertilizers can play a significant role in improving soil condition and agricultural production. Now a days Biofertilizers are available in ample with all SAUs in Gujarat. Especially, NAU is producing huge mass of Biofertilizers. With this background, the study entitled “Extent of knowledge and adoption of biofertilizers use by the biofertilizer users of Navsari district” was undertaken with the following objectives: To study the profile of the biofertilizer users, to ascertain the knowledge level of biofertilizer users towards the use of biofertilizers, to study the adoption pattern of bio fertilizers by biofertilizer users and to measure the relationship between profiles with level of Knowledge and adoption towards the use of biofertilizer.