A Study on Identification of Indigenous Technology Knowledge (ITK) and its Utilization in Contemporary Modern Agriculture at Shajapur District of Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

The ITK is an explicit or “codified” knowledge that is transmittable in formal, 
systematic language. On the other hand, ITK is a tacit knowledge of the local or 
indigenous people, which is personal, content-specific and therefore hard to 
formalize and communicate. Local or indigenous people acquire knowledge by 
actively creating and organizing their own experiences. Indigenous knowledge 
functions within the given socio-economic and spatial boundaries of the society and 
plays an active part in the culture of the population concerned, being preserved, 
communicated, and used by its members to serve some purpose in relation to 
productive activity within the society. Therefore, “A Study on Identification of 
Indigenous Technology Knowledge (ITK) and its Utilization in Contemporary 
Modern Agriculture at Shajapur District of Madhya Pradesh” with specific objective. 
The sample of the present study was selected by proportionate random sampling 
method 120 ITK users were selected randomly for this study through the KVK 
Shajapur, M.P. The finding regarding adoption behavior of ITK users in 
contemporary modern agriculture: the highest adoption observed in case of 
horticulture crop (mean score 2.20), followed by Sorghum (mean score 2.10), oil seed 
crops (mean score 2.06), soybean (mean score 1.99), maize (mean score 1.97), 
groundnut (mean score 1.95), wheat (mean score 1.92), weather forecasting (mean 
score 1.91), and pulses crops (mean score1.87).