Author(s):

Sairaj Smrutiranjan Sahoo and Aditya Prasad Kanungo

Abstract: A study entitled “knowledge and adoption level of farmers on recommended groundnut production technologies in Odisha” was undertaken with an aim to analyse the socio-economic profile, knowledge and adoption level of groundnut farmers on recommended groundnut production technologies. Both purposive and random sampling procedure well followed for selection of the district, blocks, gram panchayat, villages and respondents of the study. The total sample size of the study was 100 groundnut producing farmers. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to medium (cv=4.5%) and low (cv=3.30%) socio economic status in comparison to high (cv=9.23%) category status. Among the respondents majority (75%) belong to medium knowledge category followed by high (13%) and low (12%). Majority (68%) of the respondents were categorised under medium adoption level category followed by 23 percent low and 9 percent belonged to high adoption level categories.

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