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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 Beed district of Marathwada region from Maharashtra state. In Beed district there are 11 tehsils, out of which three tehsils namely Beed, Wadwani and Majalgaon were randomly selected on the basis of area under Bt cotton. From each tehsils 4 villages were randomly selected and from each village 10 respondents were randomly selected to comprise 120 respondents. The result clearly shows that, more than one third (76.66%) of farmers had medium level of choice of adoption of cultural practices like summer ploughing, crop rotation, trimming of field bunds, use of resistant varieties, adopting sanitation methods, intercropping and use of trap crops. In case of mechanical control method, it is observed that there are 60.82 per cent of the respondents had medium adoption of mechanical control methods. In case of biological practices of IPM technology, 58.33 per cent of the respondent had medium adoption of pheromone traps, use of trichocards etc. The data presented clearly shows that; majority (66.67%) of the farmers had medium level of choice of adoption of chemical control measures like use of various pesticides. Regarding adoption of Integrated Pest Management to control the pink bollworm of Bt cotton shows that, 66.67 per cent of farmers had medium adoption.