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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 investigation was carried out to study the profile characteristics of maize farmers in Mahmud-i-raqi district of Kapisa one of major maize production province in Afghanistan .Ex-post facto research design was followed for the study and a sample of 120respondents were drawn. The results of the study revealed that most of the respondents were young aged (39.17%), illiterate middle to school educated (30.00%),had medium experience in maize cultivation (63.33%),small farm size (58.33%), had medium mess media exposure (63.33%), medium extension contact (69.17%), low social participation (59.17%), medium scientific orientation (64.17%), medium economic orientation (65.00%), medium innovativeness (63.33%), medium achievement motivation (66.67%) and medium deferred gratification (77.50%).