Follow
International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences (IJCMAS)
IJCMAS is now DOI (CrossRef) registered Research Journal. The DOIs are assigned to all published IJCMAS Articles.
Index Copernicus ICI Journals Master List 2022 - IJCMAS--ICV 2022: 95.28 For more details click here
National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS) : NAAS Score: *5.38 (2020) [Effective from January 1, 2020] For more details click here

Login as a Reviewer


See Guidelines to Authors
Current Issues
Download Publication Certificate

Original Research Articles                      Volume : 9, Issue:12, December, 2020

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

Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci.2020.9(12): 2734-2737
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2020.912.326


Relationship between Profile of Bt Cotton Growers and their Knowledge and Adoption for Control of Pink Bollworm
A. M. Todkar*, S. R. Jakkawad and S. B. Khodake
Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Parbhani (M.S.), India
*Corresponding author
Abstract:

Variable like annual income, area under Bt cotton, source of irrigation and risk orientation found to be had positive and significant relationship with the knowledge of respondents for control of pink bollworm. While social participation, farming experience, source of information, extension contact, innovativeness, economic motivation found positive and highly significant with knowledge of respondents for control pink bollworm. Whereas variable like age, land holding etc. found non-significant relationship with knowledge of respondents. And education observed to be negatively significant with knowledge of respondents. Variable like education, area under Bt cotton, innovativeness and source of irrigation observed to be had positive and significant relationship with the adoption of respondents for control of pink bollworm. While social participation, source of information, extension contact, economic motivation, risk orientation found positive and highly significant with adoption of respondents for control pink bollworm. Where, variable like age, land holding and annual income cotton found non-significant relationship with adoption of respondents. And variable like farming experience is negatively significant with adoption of cotton growers for control of pink bollworm.


Keywords: Adoption, Relationship, Profile of Bt cotton growers, Bt. cotton, Pink bollworm, Pheromone traps etc

Download this article as Download

How to cite this article:

Todkar, A. M., S. R. Jakkawad and Khodake, S. B. 2020. Relationship between Profile of Bt Cotton Growers and their Knowledge and Adoption for Control of Pink Bollworm.Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci. 9(12): 2734-2737. doi: https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2020.912.326
Copyright: This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

Citations