Socio-Economic Characteristics of Wheat Growers in Bidar District of North Karnataka

The study was conducted in Humnabad taluk of Bidar district of north Karnataka, revealed that 33 per cent of the respondents participated in meeting regularly followed by training programs (10%), whereas 29 per cent of the farmers participated in meeting and field days occasionally followed by demonstration (26%) and field visits (25%). In case of mass media participation, radio was the most common media, which was possessed by 68 per cent of the respondents. While 8.82 per cent of the respondents were listening agricultural programmes regularly. Only 29 per cent and 5 per cent of the respondents were the members and office bearers of Service Co-operative and their extent of participation was found to be 20 per cent regularly. Ten per cent of the respondents were the members of Marketing Primary Co-operative Society and 11 per cent office bearers whereas, extent of participation regularly only 1 per cent.