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T. Manjunath ¹, L. Manjunath ¹, K. V. Natikar ¹, K. A. Jahagirdar ¹, S. N. Megeri ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), IN

Abstract

The study was conducted in the randomly selected villages of Talukas of Raichur district during 2009-2010. Manvi and Sindhanur Talukas were purposively selected since these Talukas were having more number of paddy growers and occupied more area under paddy cultivation as compared to the other Talukas in the district and also based on the criteria of high diseases and pest infestation level. Majority of the farmers (88.57% and 62.85%) had knowledge about brown plant hoppers and ear head cutting caterpillar. Majority (77.14%) of the farmers knew about Phorate. About 46.85 per cent of the farmers adopted Furadan pesticide for control of stem borer. Only 17.14 and 21.71 per cent of them adopted proper concentration of Carbofuran and Dimethoate, whereas 58.28 per cent of the farmers had adopted proper concentration of Endosulfan 35 EC. High majority (96%) of the respondents possessed television sets. Vehicles and sprayers and dusters were possessed by 90.85 and 89.71 per cent of the respondents, respectively. Lack of knowledge about chemicals, lack of knowledge about to number of sprays and lack of knowledge with regard to technology application were the major constraints as expressed by 43.42, 62.85 and 83.42 per cent of respondents, respectively. High cost of chemicals and high cost of equipments were also the major constraints expressed by 76.00 and 51.42 per cent of respondents.

Keywords

Paddy Growers, Plant Protection Measures, Knowledge and Adoption.

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Atul B. Patil , K. V. Natikar ¹, S. V. Halakatti ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), IN

Abstract

The study was carried out in Nashik and Sangli districts of Maharashtra State. The profile analysis of respondents revealed that, they belonged to all the three age groups, all of them had education upto Middle School and above, more than one third of them belonged to small land holding category, majority of them belonged to medium extension participation, to medium risk orientation, medium economic orientation, medium innovativeness and medium to high management orientation. The results indicated that, majority of the respondents had knowledge about pre-production procedure for export, most of them had knowledge about quality production for the grape export and had low knowledge about post harvest practices for export.

Keywords

Knowledge of Export Procedure, Profile of Grape Exporting Farmers.

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Savita ¹, K. V. Natikar ¹, S. V. Halakatti ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), IN

Abstract

The Investigation was carried out in the year 2007-2008 to know the suggestions offered by the community based tank management project beneficiary farmers in ten villages of Bidar district. The study revealed that majority (46.66%) of the beneficiary farmers suggested to provide inputs like seeds, fertilizers and pesticides in time, equal importance should be given to all members (43.33%), and entire farm families should be covered (34.0%) involve local people while planning for construction of community tank (32.00%), inclusion of other agro-based income generating enterprises in the programme (30.00%), equal benefits to all the beneficiaries (26.66%), ‘training on management of community tank’ (23.33%), ‘conduct more extension educational activities’ (22.66%), ‘training on proper utilization of community tank for enhancing their income through fish culture’ (21.33%).

Keywords

Community, Tank Management Project.

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S. V. Halakatti ¹, V. Kamraddi ², K. V. Natikar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), IN
2 Department of Home Science, College of Agriculture, Hassan (Karnataka), IN

Abstract

The study was conducted in Haveri District of Karnataka for the economic impact of transfer of technology of improved production technology of small millets, which revealed that there was a wide gap in the actual yield compared with the potential yield in the farmers field and research station yields.

Keywords

Small Millets, Nutrition, Frontline Demonstrations, Beneficiaries.

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Geeta P. Channal ¹, K. V. Natikar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), IN

Abstract

The present study was undertaken during the year 2014-15 in three districts of North Karnataka. Fifty trained and 50 untrained entrepreneurs from each district were selected making a total sample size of 300. Majority of the trained and untrained were from middle age group, had education upto middle level of schooling, coming from rural area and having nuclear families.

Keywords

Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP), RUDSETI, Impact, Leadership, Decision Making, Confidence, Management Orientation, Establishment of Enterprise, Growth/Expansion of Enterprise.

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