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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The study was taken up with the main objective of identifying and analyzing the adoption of package of practices by the Chilli farmers as recommended by the scientists of ANGRAU. It was conducted in 2013 with a sample of Sixty (60) tenant farmers in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Cent per cent of the respondents fell in the category of fully adopted with respect to time of harvest. 86.67 per cent of the respondents fully adopted recommended doses of fertilizers; while the remaining 13.33 per cent fell in the category of partially adopted. 81.67 per cent of the respondents fully adopted recommended dosage of pesticides, followed by partially adopted (18.33%). 73.33 per cent of the respondents fully adopted the recommended number of irrigations; while the remaining 26.67 per cent fell in the category of partially adopted. 76.67 per cent of the respondents fully adopted the recommended varieties in chilli, followed by partially adopted (23.33%). With respect to seed rate, 63.33 per cent of the respondents fell in the category of fully adopted, followed by partially adopted (36.67%). A little more than half of the farmers had medium adoption (61.67%) of recommended package of practices in chilli crop, followed by high (23.33%) and low (15.00%) adoption. Hiked land lease rents, lack of financial support from banks and payment of entire land lease rent in the form of cash were the major problems encountered by tenant farmers in tenant farming.