Impediments faced by the groundnut growers in adoption of recommended kharif groundnut production technology 

Abstract

Groundnut being one of the important oilseed crop in Banaskantha district. The area under kharif groundnut is increasing year by year, but the production is not increasing. The average yield of farm level is always lower than yield obtained in FLDs. There is a wide gap between the farmer yield and FLD yield. This means that the groundnut crop has still potentiality to increase the productivity. This comparatively low productivity of kharif groundnut crop may be governed by many factors including adoption as well as many hindrances in the farmer's field situation. The present study was undertaken in Banaskantha district as having large area and more production under kharif groundnut in North Gujarat. Three talukas viz., Deesa, Dhanera and Dantiwada were selected purposively having higher area under kharif groundnut cultivation in the district. Five villages from each selected talukas and 10 farmers from each village were selected randomly. Hence final sample consists of 150 farmers. The major constraints faced by the groundnut growers in adoption of recommended kharif groundnut production technology were; high cost of input (96.67%), high wages of labour (92.00%), high cost of seed (85.33%) and lack of pure and good quality seed (80.00%). The suggestions offered by the groundnut growers to overcome the constrains faced by them in adoption of recommended kharif groundnut production technology were; certified seeds should be freely available from the market and co-operative society (94.67%), reasonable price should be given to agricultural produce (82.00%) and price of inputs should be minimized (65.33%).