Constraints Faced by Farmers in Adoption of Soil Testing Based Fertilizer Application

To improve soil testing advisory service, KVK- Valsad (Gujarat) conducted a study during 2020–21. Randomly two villages selected from each block of Valsad district of Gujarat. Thus, ten respondents from each village comprising of total number of respondents to be 120 were selected at random sample for the study. Valsad district is tribal dominated area so about 93.33 per cent respondents were belonged to scheduled tribe. Average data of study revealed that maximum 49.7% respondents having partial knowledge, 42.7% respondents had complete knowledge and only 9% respondents had no knowledge about soil testing however, average 57.80% respondents had adopted the soil testing based recommendations. Further, data also showed that 75.83% respondents explained the problem of unavailability of sufficient quantity of organic manures whereas 60.0 per cent respondents faced the problem of unavailability of soil testing facility in nearby village due to interior hilly tribal areas as major constraints in adoption of soil test based fertilizer recommendation.