Year: 2017 | Month: December | Volume 3 | Issue 2
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Hybrid Rice Cultivation in Jammu District
Rakesh Kumar1
Shanu Pathania1
Chimet Lahmo1
Rajinder Peshin1 P.S. Slathia1 and Bharat Bhushan2
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Abstract:
Rice (Oryza sativa) is the staple food of about 65% of Indian population. Its production and productivity has increased with the development of dwarf and input responsive varieties. Hybrid rice can be one of the drivers for accelerating the rice production and productivity to meet the growing consumption requirement of ever increasing population. Various factors affect the adoption of a new technology such as its attributes which includes relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and observability. Keeping in view the importance of hybrid varieties of rice in increasing the overall production a research pursuit was undertaken with 70 rice farmers and this paper access the present status of adoption of hybrid rice cultivation in Jammu district. The results show that relative advantage which augmented the adoption of hybrid rice cultivation as reported by the respondent farmers was higher yield (100%), non-lodging (80%) & high fertiliser responsive (85%) respectively and major constraints reported by farmers were threshing problem and less market price.
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