Author(s):

JV Chovatia, VM Savaliya, SJ Sindhi, PS Gorfad and BN Kalsariya

Abstract: The present investigation was undertaken in Saurashtra region. Out of these, four districts have been selected for this study, and of each of district, one taluka was selected purposively. These talukas having higher number of farmers of drip irrigation system adopted in cotton crop. Among these four selected talukas, three villages from each of selected taluka were selected randomly. From each selected village, fifteen farmers who are having drip irrigation system in cotton crop were selected. Thus, total 180 cotton growers have been selected to know the constrains of cotton growers in adoption of drip irrigation system, and were interviewed with a structural pre-tested interview schedule. Major personal constraints faced by cotton growers were frequently blockage of dripper in case of salty and hard water, so it requires constant monitoring (mean 2.67) while, main administrative constraint was improper service provided by DIS suppliers (mean 2.48) and getting subsidy from GGRC and timely installation of DIS from suppliers is very tedious process (mean 2.64). The major economic and technical constraints were; GGRC did not help for obtaining credit from any financial organization (mean 2.27) and Improper demonstration on field, irregular guidance and supervision (mean 2.19).

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