Association between Socio-personal Characteristics and Knowledge, Attitude of Farmers towards Wheat Cultivation

A survey was carried out to study the socio- personal characteristics, knowledge and attitude of wheat cultivating farmers among 300 respondents of Aligarh district Uttar Pradesh. Majority of the farmers were of low socioeconomic belong to 31 to 45 years age group, educated upto middle to intermediate, living in nuclear type of family system. A significant and positive correlation was found between education, income, size of holding, social participation, farm power, urban contact and socio- economic status with knowledge and attitude of the farmers.