Knowledge level of different categories of farmers about improved mustard production technology in Ajmer district of Rajasthan

Mustard is one of the main oilseed crops in Rabi season. Our vegetable oil requirement by the end of 2020 AD was estimated around 35 million tones of oil seeds against the present production of 27 million tones. This situation, in fact, is very alarming. Obviously, there is an urgent need for increasing the production of oilseeds in the country. To cope up with this situation, our research scientists, extension workers and farmers have great responsibility to maximize the production of oilseeds which is only possible, if farmers have a knowledge and awareness about the new technology which is recommended by the Agriculture Research Scientists specially for the rapeseed-rnustard crop,' then they may adopt the recommended practices. Because in the direction of adoption process of any practice, knowledge and awareness about such technology and practice must be necessary. Therefore first. we go for the study of knowledge level of different categories of farmers about improved mustard production technology. For this purpose State Agriculture Department, State Agricultural Universities and National Research Centre on Rapeseed-Mustard organize various activities to create awareness and increase the knowledge of farmers about improved mustard production practices. A large numbers of yield maxirnization trials laid out at the research stations as well as at the farmers fields have shown the potentiality of the new technology to, be highly effective in concern of knowledge improvement about new technology and by the improvement in knowledge level of farmers about mustard cultivation the gap of recommended and adopted practices may reduce by adopting the recommended practices. The Objective was the empirical measures and quantification of the knowledge level of different categories of farmers about improved technology of mustard cultivation.