The present study was undertaken with objectives to study the employment, income and expenditure pattern, effects of improved production technology, costs and returns, the resource use productivities, constraints in adoption of improved production technologies, the input use gap and yield gap. Total 954 soybean growers were selected for the study. Extent of adoption of all technologies together was estimated by calculating Technology Adoption Index (TAI).

The technology adoption index was ranged between 44 to 67 per cent for low to high adopters. The crop production alone provided employment to the tune of 35.09 per cent. The wage earning and services or business contributed 4.52 and 29.50 per cent of total employment. The average annual gross income of the soybean sample families at the overall level was ` 4, 96,899 and it ranged from ` 4, 38,227 (low) to ` 5, 55,817 (high). The crop production accounts almost half of the annual expenditure at the overall level. The seed were used at some higher doses (1.92 per cent). This may be because of the fear of poor germination or crop failure.

The added yield was 3.28 Q/ha and 6.77 Q/ha over the low and medium level of adoption. Thus, for producing this extra yield per hectare costs were also increased from ` 6,359.04 to ` 7,319.60. The yield gap was ranged between 41 to 69 and 20 to 59 per cent, respectively. . The variables viz; human labour and potash for soybean were negatively significant indicating that there was an excess use of these inputs and need to curtail up to recommendation level for increasing output. The sample cultivators reported the problems viz; high cost of manure, non-availability of water for irrigation, high cost of, high cost of ploughing etc.