Perception of information management by different categories of sugarcane growers

A study was conducted to examine the perception of information management of different categories of sugarcane growers selected from six villages of Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu. The respondents were prestratified in to marginal, small and big farmers consisting of 80 respondents in each category. Altogether, 240 respondents were selected from six villages proportionately using simple random sampling. Fourty one per cent of marginal farmers had low level of perception on information management on sugarcane technologies, whereas only 42.50 per cent of small farmers had medium level of perception on information management. In case of big ^, …. farmers, 57.50 per cent of them had high level of perception on information management. Out of fourteen independent variables, only one variable viz.; information source utilization was found to have a positive and significant relationship with perception on information management level of all the three categories of sugarcane growers. Farming experience was found to have a positive and significant relationship among the marginal farmers whereas it had a negative and significant relationship among big farmers with their perception on information management.