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 |
Bitter gourd is one of the most important vegetable crops due to its health related and economic importance. Due to consider the fact that farmers face certain problems at their level while adopting and utilizing any production technology, such study was conducted with the objective of find out and study the problems faced by bitter gourd growers in adoption of recommended production technology in Kheda taluka of Kheda district of Gujarat. The study was conducted through ex-post facto research design with multi stage, purposive and random sampling procedures. Mean score was calculated for each problem statement and then ranks were assigned according to their mean scores. The problems were categorized under the title of input related, finance, market related, technical and others. In this investigation, it was observed that majority of the bitter gourd growers faced the problems about high cost of inputs, lack of financial agencies, unavailability of credit at marginal interest, lack of knowledge about export quality produce, high fluctuation in market prices and malpractices of merchants in the markets.
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