Constraints faced by beneficiary farmers in adoption of improved chickpea production technology in Malwa pleatue of Madhya Pradesh

The present study was under taken in the Malwa Plateau Agro-climatic zones of Madhya Pradesh where chick pea is one of the most important pulse crops and covers highest area. A list of villages where CFLD pulses programme was implemented for the last five year was taken from the respective KVKs. 15 beneficiary farmers and 15 non beneficiary farmers were selected randomly from each village. Thus, total 120 beneficiary and 120 non-beneficiary farmers were selected for the study. An ex-post facto research design was used. It was found that, majority of the problems faced by chickpea growing farmers were related to production constraints. Majority of the chickpea grower's reported that high infestation of insect, disease (91.66%) with rank I followed by non availability of fertilizers at proper time (85%) with II rank ,unfavourable weather condition (81.66%) with III rank, incidence of weeds menace (79.16%) with IV rank, not availability of loan at proper time (55.83%) with V rank, not available of seed at time (52.50%) with VI rank, lack of proper resource and money (50.83%) with rank-VII, high cost of agricultural inputs (46.67%) with the rank-VIII, lack of good quality of seeds with the rank-IX.