Constraints experienced by farmers in adoption of recommended groundnut crop production technology

India is a world leader in groundnut farming. A multistage, purposive and random sampling technique was used for the study and conducted in Saurashtra region of Gujarat state. Four districts were selected purposively where front-line demonstrations were conducted and from each district 2 talukas whereas 2 villages from each talukas were selected purposively by KVK. Ten farmers from each village were selected randomly, thus making a total of 160 respondents for this study. An ex-post facto research design was used and the data were collected by interview method and enquired about the constraints faced by them in adopting the recommended groundnut crop production technology. It was revealed that major constraints of the respondents faced were high price of improved seeds (92.50%) followed by low production due to pest and disease infestation (88.75%), the non-availability of appropriate market price on farm produce (86.25%), shortage and high wages of labour (85.00%) and lack of knowledge about critical stages (83.12%) as reported by the respondents.