Adoption of Recommended Production Technologies of Brinjal in Banda District of Bundelkhand Region, U.P.

The present study was undertaken in Banda district of Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh where the Brinjal is the most popular vegetable among the consumers as well as growers. Seven villages were selected from the district based on production potential of the brinjal crop. From the commercial vegetables growers of each village, 20 brinjal growers with total sample size of 140 were selected purposely. The study revealed that majority (68.57%) of the brinjal growers had medium extent of adoption; followed by 20.00 per cent and 11.43 per cent of the brinjal growers had low and high level of adoption, respectively. The non-cost and low cost inputs in the recommended production technologies for cultivation of vegetables were adopted more by the respondents. The independent variables like education, land holding and source of information pattern had positive and highly significant correlation with adoption of production technology by respondents. Whereas, occupation, social participation and annual income had negative and non-significant relationship with adoption behavior of the brinjal growers. The study may be concluded that more extension efforts are needed for increasing adoption level among the growers. The information generated from the study could be used for the development of extension strategies to ensure the wide adoption of recommended production technologies in the region.