National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study was conducted in two purposively selected district of UP to identify the constraints perceived by farmers in hybrid paddy farming. From each district ten villages and 5 respondents were selected from each village. Thus, a total of 100 farmers who actively involved in hybrid paddy farming were randomly selected from twenty villages of Ambedkar Nagar and Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Garrett’ ranking technique was adopted to analyze the constraints as perceived by the respondents in hybrid rice farming. The results revealed that major constraints perceived by hybrid rice growers were hybrid paddy once sown cannot sow it again ranked first with Garrett mean score of 72.90, followed by higher seed cost with Garrett mean score of 68.41. Distasteful cooking quality was ranked third with Garrett mean score of 68.06 followed by falling problem of large varieties, less head rice recovery, less pricing ability and lack of demand, problem of Ripening time of hybrid rice, cheap grain quality and lack of knowledge about seed treatment were the other major constraints as perceived by farmer with Garrett score of 54.91, 54.90, 49.68, 48.03, 40.5 and 38.76, respectively.
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