Knowledge Level and Adoption of Production Technology of Wheat

Wheat is one of the important cereal crops in the country. Since dates back, there is huge improvement in area, production and productivity of wheat. In U.P., even though the wheat average is high the productivity is still far behind the other wheat growing states. Keeping in view the immense scope of production of wheat, the level of knowledge and adoption was ascertained among the growers of wheat. The study was undertaken among the groups viz., resource rich and resource poor farmers. The study revealed that most of the resource rich and resource poor farmers did not possess good knowledge about common practices under wheat production technology. Very low level of adoption was found in case of method of sowing and rat control under both groups of farmers. Thus, the proper method should be transferred as and when required by farmers to boost up the production per unit area of wheat.