SOCIO-ECONOMIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND COMMUNICATIONAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE SESAME GROWERS OF JABALPUR DISTRICT OF M.P.

CHANDRIKA SHARMA¹*, A.K. PANDE², SEEMA NABERIA^3
1Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University, Adhartal, Jabalpur, 482004, Madhya Pradesh, India
²Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University, Adhartal, Jabalpur, 482004, Madhya Pradesh, India
³Department of Extension Education, College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University, Adhartal, Jabalpur, 482004, Madhya Pradesh, India
* Corresponding Author : chandrikasharma1991@gmail.com

Received : 11-07-2016     Accepted : 29-07-2016     Published : 24-10-2016
Volume : 8     Issue : 50       Pages : 2173 - 2174
Int J Agr Sci 8.50 (2016):2173-2174

Keywords : Socio-economic, Psychological, Communicational, Sesame growers
Academic Editor : Dr Nalin Khare, Dr. S.K. Agrawal
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : None declared
Author Contribution : None declared

The research study was undertaken in Jabalpur district of M.P. under ex-post facto research design and planned to know the socio-economic, psychological and communicational attributes of the sesame growers. Ten different villages of Sihora block were selected randomly. Thus, in all, 100 sesame growers were interrogated through pre-tested structural interview schedule to constitute the samples for the investigation. The study uncovered the facts that majority of the sesame growers belonged to middle age, had education up to middle level, possess small land holdings with marginal land under sesame. It was also observed that a large number of them had low material possession, no participation in social organizations and falls under medium annual income group with low socio-economic status. The communicational attributes like exposure to mass media and extension participation were found to be low in majority of them. Although the sesame growers had medium knowledge and adoption level of sesame production technologies, they were seen to have high scientific orientation.