Attitude of Postgraduate Research Scholars of Anand Agricultural University Toward Integrated Pest Management

IPM was more effective techniques than farmers’ practice (FP) in managing the insect- pest and diseases and today it is necessary to understanding environment and pollution related aspects. Agricultural research scholars as a future generation of agricultural development need to possess general awareness and knowledge about integrated pest management. The data were collected by personal interview from randomly selected postgraduate research scholars. The independent variables undertaken in this study were age, academic performance, involvement in extra-curricular activities, father's education, mother's education, habit of information collection, library exposure, internet exposure, family income, father's occupation, scientific orientation, innovation proneness, and knowledge about global warming. The selected dependent and independent variables were measured with the help of suitable scale and procedures. The attitude of the postgraduate scholars was observed significantly higher among those who had higher library exposure, information collection habit, more thanone occupation of family, innovation prone nesses, sensitivity to minimize global warming and knowledge about global warming. It can be seen in that more than two fifth (46.00 per cent) of the postgraduate research scholars held neutral attitude towards IPM.