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Adoption of Orange Root Stock by Orange Nursery Growers


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1 Department of Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agricultural College, Amravati (M.S.), India
2 Department of Agricultural Botany, Shri Shivaji Agricultural College, Amravati (M.S.), India
     

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The present investigation was conducted in Warud Panchayat Samiti of Amravati district in Maharashtra state, the main objective of the study was to assess the relationship between selected characteristic of orange nursery growers about orange ischolar_main stock. A pre-structure interview schedule was used to collect data from 100 orange nursery growers from 5 villages which were selected by proportionate random sampling. The statistical method such as frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation, correlation and multiple regression analysis of data. The research study shows that land holding, annual income, area under orange nursery cultivation, area under mother plantation and extension contact were from found to be positively and significantly related with adoption of orange ischolar_main stock. Multiple regression analysis indicated that from all selected nine variables, four variables namely education, land holding annual income, and extension contact were significantly contributing factors in case of adoption of orange ischolar_main stock.


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Adoption, Orange Root Stock, Orange Nursery Grower.
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Authors

S. P. Kharpe
Department of Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agricultural College, Amravati (M.S.), India
S. U. Mokhale
Department of Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agricultural College, Amravati (M.S.), India
N. J. Chikhale
Department of Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agricultural College, Amravati (M.S.), India
M.S. Naware
Department of Agricultural Botany, Shri Shivaji Agricultural College, Amravati (M.S.), India

Abstract


The present investigation was conducted in Warud Panchayat Samiti of Amravati district in Maharashtra state, the main objective of the study was to assess the relationship between selected characteristic of orange nursery growers about orange ischolar_main stock. A pre-structure interview schedule was used to collect data from 100 orange nursery growers from 5 villages which were selected by proportionate random sampling. The statistical method such as frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation, correlation and multiple regression analysis of data. The research study shows that land holding, annual income, area under orange nursery cultivation, area under mother plantation and extension contact were from found to be positively and significantly related with adoption of orange ischolar_main stock. Multiple regression analysis indicated that from all selected nine variables, four variables namely education, land holding annual income, and extension contact were significantly contributing factors in case of adoption of orange ischolar_main stock.


Keywords


Adoption, Orange Root Stock, Orange Nursery Grower.

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