Analysis of Personal, Social and Behavioural Traits Facilitating the Success of Innovative Farmers

Today we need innovative approach in agriculture extension that recognises farmers’ knowledge and wisdom and uses it in dissemination of technology. In this context, studies of successful, progressive, and innovative farmers can form important content to agricultural extension system. Therefore study was conducted in different agro climatic zones of Karnataka. Innovative cases of 72 progressive farmers were studied. Data were collected by personally interviewing farmers and participant observations. It was observed that, most of the innovative farmers had moderate to high level on behavioural traits like achievement motivation, innovation proneness, risk orientation etc. Study found that 30 per cent of innovative farmers were graduates, 33 per cent of them had land holding more than ten hectare and 12.5 per cent had occupied distinctive post in social participation.