Study on Adoption Behaviour of Improved Onion Production Technology of Onion Growers in Alirajpur District in M.P.

Abstract

Alirajpur district in Madhya Pradesh is one of the important areas with great potential for onion production. In district Alirajpur, onion is grown in an area of 1370 hectares with a production of 20550 tonnes, with a maximum productivity of 15.00 tonnes per hectare. It was found that the majority of the farmers are still lagging behind the adoption of improved onion production technology in the area. It thus, becomes necessary to assess the adoption behaviour of onion growers, towards improved onion production technology therefore the 130 farmers were selected using proportionate allocation method from small, medium and large farmers. This study depicted that majority of the onion growers 37.69 per cent were found to have medium adoption behaviour of overall technology followed by high adoption behaviour 36.15 per cent and low adoption behaviour 26.15 per cent in respect of overall onion production technology respectively