National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
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 present study was conducted in Gurugram and Jhajjar districts of Haryana state. From both districts, two blocks were selected randomly i.e. Farrukh agar and Gurgaon from the district Gurugram and Jhajjar and Bahadurgarh from the district Jhajjar. From each selected block, 20 growers selected randomly, thus making a total 80 farmers who were involved in marigold cultivation. The study revealed that, majority of the respondents were middle aged, had graduation level of education, with service and agriculture as their main occupation, having small family size, living as joint families, and having large landholding size. Majority of the respondents were found listening to radio krishi programmes as their mass media exposure. In case extension contacts majority of the respondents were found in contact with the ADO/VEW. Regarding concept, importance, harvesting, packing and marketing of marigold majority of the respondents had medium level of knowledge. In the case of agronomic practices and fertilizers application majority of the respondents belonged to a low level of knowledge.
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