KNOWLEDGE OF MUSTARD GROWERS TOWARDS IMPROVED CULTIVATION PRACTICES IN SIRSA DISTRICT OF HARYANA

Abstract

Increasing living standard of people arises the need for increased production of oilseed 
in country. But per capita availability of oil is very low, thus to increase the production of oil seed 
the farmers should adopt the new technology. Meanwhile, the research gap should be identified 
and rectified to increase the production.  Thus, the knowledge and adoption level of respondents 
was studied to understand the complexity of technology adoption. Descriptive research design was 
adopted for the study. 120 respondents from six villages namely, Alanoor, Bhadra, Chamal, Dadu, 
Ffagu and Jamal of Sirsa block of Sirsa district in Haryana. The findings reported that majority 
of the respondents were middle aged, literate with middle school, had a land holding of 2.5-5 
acres, nuclear family, agriculture as their major occupation along with service as their subsidiary 
occupation, medium level of annual income, had membership in more than one organization, 
medium level of risk orientation, medium level of knowledge, medium level of adoption.