Input Utilization Demeanour of Cotton Cultivators

The study on Input utilization demeanour of Cotton cultivators was conducted in year 2009–2010 in Wardha and Yavatmal districts. The objective of the present investigation was to study the relationship between personal, psychological, communication and input utilization demeanour of cotton cultivators. The information of 100 cotton cultivators from ten villages was collected with the help of pretested schedule by contacting them personally. The relationship between the independent variables and dependent variable tested with the help of co-efficient of correlation. Age, area under cotton, annual income, cotton production, extension contact have shown significant relationship with the input utilization demeanour of cotton cultivators. Thus it is concluded that these variables has influenced the input utilization demeanour of cotton cultivators. It is therefore suggested that multichannel approaches required to be adopted by the extension personnel as well as farmer.