Land Utilization Pattern of Recomended Rice Production Technologies According to Various Soil Types in Chhatisgarh State

According to depth and topography, the Chattisgarh (CG) state is having various topographic situations with land types. On higher elevation, the topography of soil situation called Bhata (entisols), lower to this Matasi (inceptisols), then Dorsa (alfisols), and at lowest elevation and highest deep Kanhar (vertisols) were widely situated. Out of the total geographical area of CG (1.35 lakh sq.m) occupied 4.14% area of country, the area of Bhata, Matasi, Dorsa and Kanhar occupied 9.8, 14, 10.8 and 11.2 lakh ha area respectively. The present investigation was carried out with a sample of 120 farmers selected from 12 villages from 3 randomly selected blocks of Raipur District. The findings showed that inceptisols and vertisols were the popular soil types among the respondents. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents were adopting broadcast method for sowing in all types of soils. This study showed 1010 variety of rice were used in maximum and using medium fertilizers application according to soil textures, used effective pesticides and control measures. Regarding knowledge about land types, most of the farmers were found to be well aware about soil characteristics and continued the adoption of recommended practices,variety, sowing method but at average level.