Adoption and Opinion of farmers towards of improved Cluster Bean cultivation practices among the farmers in Jaipur district of Rajasthan

The present study was conducted in the two tehsils namely Choumu and Amer were selected Jaipur district of Rajasthan, on the basis of maximum area under cultivation of cluster bean. Five villages from each selected tehsils were taken on the basis of maximum area under cluster bean. Thus, 60 cluster bean growers were selected from each tehsils cultivation. Results indicated that 51.67 per cent of the total respondents adopted the cluster bean production technology to a medium level whereas, 31.67 and 16.66 per cent of total respondents adopted cluster production technology to low and high level respectively. The finding of the study indicated that farmers had “adequate adoption regarding recommended time of sowing”, “using recommended seed rate”, “maintaining recommended spacing”, “irrigation management” where as they had less adoption regarding “using recommended insecticides for insect pest control”, “recommended chemicals for disease control”, “recommended method and time of harvesting” recommended soil treatment and high yielding varieties. The finding of the study indicated that majority of the respondents had more opinion regarding “lack of proper training is a constraints in its cultivation” with MPS 77.08. Like “the producer sale their produce at low rate due to financial crisis” with MPS 75.83 and “the soil and climate in our area is less suitable for its cultivation” with MPS 75.00. Where as they had less opinion regarding “there is good Government procurement policy for produce that encourages its cultivation” with MPS 49.58. Like “cluster bean is less input intensive crop with MPS 52.08.