Reasons for Adoption and Non-adoption of Super Seeder Farm Technology and Factors Affecting Knowledge Level of Farmers in Haryana

The rice-wheat cropping system (RWCS), which is the major cropping system in South Asia, includes residue burning. Rice and wheat are grown in rotation throughout the year in this method. Haryana, despite its modest size, has contributed significantly to India’s highest food grain production. 80 per cent of the state’s total geographical area of 4.42 million hectares is under agriculture, with irrigated land accounting for 84 per cent of the cultivated land. The state’s cropping intensity is 181 per cent, with a total food grain production of 13.1 million tonnes. One of the most common crop rotations in the state is paddy-wheat (Haryana-ICAR). The rice-wheat crop rotation has been used by Haryana farmers. Farmers benefit more under this arrangement, but they deplete natural resources such as groundwater, soil fertility, soil fauna and flora, and so on. They also disrupted the agro-ecosystem by disrupting biogeochemical cycles, developing insect pest and disease resistance, and reducing soil organic matter, among other things. This crop rotation is supposed to produce about 40 million tone of crop waste every year.