Knowledge of farmers about good agricultural practices of sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) moench]

The Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ajmer (Raj.) is playing a vital role in transfer of technologies among the farming community by way of organizing specialized skill oriented on and offcampus trainings, demonstrations, farmers scientist interaction, on-farm trials, field days and kisan-gosthies for last 16 years. In current study an attempt has been made to measure the knowledge of farmers about good agricultural practices of sorghum. Two Panchayat samities viz,Pisangan and Silora were randomly selected for study.Six villages from these two panchayat samities were randomly selected. A total 120 respondents (60 farmers as benefited and 60 farmers as non-benefited) were randomly selected for the present investigation. The results indicated that majority of benefited farmers found in medium to high knowledge group, whereas, majority of non-benefited farmers were having low to medium level of knowledge regarding improved sorghum production technology. The mean percent score of benefited farmers varied from 34.16 to 100.00, while in case of non-benefited farmers the mean percent scores varied from 20.83 to 98.33. Further the data revealed that highest difference in knowledge level of benefited and non-benefited farmers was observed in fertilizer application followed by seed treatment and weed management. Study also revealed that level of knowledge of benefited farmers about different aspects of sorghum production technologies was higher than non-benefited farmers ranging from 1.67 MPS of time of sowing to 25.00 MPS of fertilizer application.