Adoption Behavior of Banana Growers in Burhanpur District

The study was conducted in Burhanpur district of M.P. because the potential numbers of banana growers are available and an investigator is familiar with the area and the people. Under Burhanpur block 120 respondents were selected randomly from four villages, 30 respondents were selected from each selected village. The data were collected through personal interview method by the researcher herself with the help of pre-structured scheduled designed with the objective of evaluating the level of knowledge of banana growers and ascertain the extent of technology adoption gap in banana cultivation. The data collected was subjected to suitable technique of analysis by regression. The study revealed that there were 56% respondents belonged to medium socio economic characteristics, 24% were found to be high and 20% respondents were of having low socio economic characteristics. The maximum percentages (i.e. 57.50%) of the farmers were having medium level of knowledge followed by low and high level of knowledge (i.e. 34.17% & 8.33%). The majority (56%) of the farmers were having partial gap in adoption technology followed by full gap (20%) and no gap (24%) in adoption technology.