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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 on adoption of recommended cultivation practices in little millet (Panicum millare) among hilly tribe farmers in Jawadhu hills of Tiruvannamalai district was selected purposively, since it is one among the districts where the little millet (Panicum millare) is cultivated in larger area by the hilly tribe farmers. The Ex-post facto research design is adopted for this study. The study was confined with seven villages namely Kovilur, Nammiyampattu, Kanamali, Veerappanur, Melsilambai, Palamarathur and Kuttakarai from Jamunamarathur (Jawadhu hills) block of Tiruvannamalai district. The sample size of 240 respondents was selected from these villages by proportionate random sampling method. The respondents were interviewed personally by a well-structured and pre-tested interview schedule. The statistical tools of mean, standard deviation, cumulative frequency and percentage analysis were used to analyze the collected data. In this context the overall adoption, technology-wise adoption of little millet cultivation practices among tribal farmers were discussed.