Adoption of scientific vegetable cultivation practices by tribal women farmers of Banka district state Bihar Kushwah Sunita1,*, Singh Anjani Kumar2, Sohane R K3, Singh R. N.4 1Sr. Scientist & Head, KVK (Vaishali), DRPCAU, Pusa 2Director, ATARI, Zone IV, Patna 3Director, Extension Education, B.A.U., Sabour, Bhagalpur 4Associate Director, Extension Education, B.A.U., Sabour, Bhagalpur *Corresponding Author Email: sunita17kk@rediffmail.com
Online published on 19 April, 2024. Abstract The present study was under-taken with a view to find out the socio-economic profile of tribal women farmers; to find out the relationship between the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents with the vegetable adoption. Land holding size recorded positive significant correlation. It is revealed that own land holding respondent have more earnings and had good income to adopt the vegetable cultivation. In this study, extent of adoption of thirteen selected, scientific vegetable cultivation practices were measured. Total 86 respondents were selected for the study. The practice of higher percentage in unknown category were Knowing about protected cultivation and diseases management and their control (95.34%), followed by selection of variety (93.02%) and other characters. In case of after training i.e. trained tribal women farmers, the practices of higher percentage grouped into complete knowledge category revealed that maximum knowledge gain recorded for marketing of vegetables (95.34%), followed by storage of fresh vegetables (76.74%), while trained tribal women grouped into partial knowledge category were knowing technology of vegetable cultivation and scientific method of nursery raising (76.60%), followed by use of organic fertilizers (74.47%). Overall knowledge gaps for the selected practices before and after training of tribal women farmers were obtained (78.92) and (27.12) percent respectively and “t” test is reported significant for all vegetable practices. Top Keywords Adoption, Rejection, Strategy, Socio-economic status, Tribal, Vegetable practices. Top |