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 study was conducted to know the level of knowledge of the maize farmers regarding pest management of maize crop in Panchmahals district. Gujarat state has 33 districts and out of these Panchmahal district purposively selected for this study. Panchmahals district comprises seven talukas out of them three talukas viz. Godhra, Kalol, and Halol, were selected purposively. There are four villages were selected randomly. After selection of villages 10 maize farmers from each village were selected randomly, Thus, in all 120 maize farmers were constitute the sample for this investigation. The data of this study were collected by arranging personal interview. Vast majority of the maize farmers had knowledge about manual weed management (95.00 per cent). Majority of maize farmers had knowledge about fertilizer management in FYM (70.00 per cent), university recommended improved varieties (68.33 per cent), seed rate and time of sowing(65.83 per cent), knowledge of occurrence of Helicoverpa armigera (64.16 per cent), knowledge of occurrence of hairy caterpillar (62.50 per cent), seed treatment as well as knowledge of occurrence of aphid (60.83 per cent) and spacing in composite varieties (60.00 per cent).
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