Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development
  • Year: 2009
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 2

Farmers' Awareness about Improvised Agricultural Technologies Developed by fellow Progressive Farmers: An Empirical Study

  • Author:
  • Ram Datt1, D.K. Sujan2, K. Jha Sujeet1
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 41 to 43

1Division of Dairy Extension, NDRI, Karnal-32001 (Haryana).

2Deptt. of Extension Education, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU, Varanasi-221005 (UP).

Abstract

Present study was conducted in the purposively sampled Araziline block of Varanasi district in Uttar Pradesh. The improved agricultural technologies developed by the farmers and identified from the pilot study were utilized for assessing the awareness of a sample of so farmers about those technologies. Finding of the study showed that farmers were more aware about innovative method of nursery raising (62.50%), followed by Kudrat-9 variety of wheat (33.75%), Khusbu S-1 variety of rice (37.50%) and Kudrat-3 variety of pigeonpea (22.50%). They were found least aware of innovative farm implements (12.25%) developed by fellow farmers.