ISSN : 0975-3710
EISSN : 0975-9107
K. SUSEELA1*, M. CHANDRASEKARAN2
1Department of Agricultural Economics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641 003, Tamil Nadu, India
2Department of Agricultural Economics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, 641 003, Tamil Nadu, India
* Corresponding Author : suseelaagri@gmail.com
Received : 16-05-2018 Accepted : 23-05-2018 Published : 30-05-2018
Volume : 10 Issue : 10 Pages : 6081 - 6086
Int J Agr Sci 10.10 (2018):6081-6086
Keywords : Dryland, Technology, Adoption Index, Major crops, Andhra Pradesh
Academic Editor : Massimi M., Dr Govind Baburao Yenge, Rupinder Singh
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Agricultural College and Research Institute (AC & RI), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, 641 003, Tamil Nadu, India.
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed
The study examined the level of technology adoption in dryland crops of Andhra Pradesh namely groundnut, bengal gram, cotton, redgram, jowar, castor and tobacco. An adoption index was constructed to quantify the adoption of selected technologies. The results revealed that across crops drought tolerant high yielding variety was adopted between 71.0 percent and 84.31 percent; with the exception of castor and tobacco, sowing with machinery was adopted between 61.76 percent and 84.38 percent indicating higher rate of adoption. With the exception of curing for tobacco, the technologies like gypsum application and earthing-up in groundnut, nipping, thinning and gap filling in cotton and topping and de-suckering in tobacco were adopted between 14.5 percent and 37.14 percent. The percentage of farmers adopting dryland technologies was high in Prakasam district followed by Kurnool and Ananthapur districts. The overall dryland technology adoption ranged between 35.95 and 46.04 percent among the crops and across the districts.
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