Attitude of farmers regarding adoption of cntrol measures of various disease of rice.
2009
Shrivastava, R. | Shrivastava, K.K. | Shrivastava, P. | Sarkar, J.D.
The rise in human population is much faster than the rise in food production. rice is know to be infested by various fungal, viral and bacterial diseases which appear at all the growth stage from nursery till harvest of the crop. Attitude is primarily a way of being set towards or against certain things. A randomly selected sample of 160 farmers was interviewed from two blocks of Dhamtari district to ascertain their attitude towards adoption of control measures of various rice diseases. Majority of them had moderately favourable attitude regarding use of control measure practices of various rice diseases. The variables education, size, of family, social participation, land holding, annual income, occupation, credit facilities, sources of information, extension contact, scientific orientation, knowledge and adoption were found to be positively and significantly correlated with attitude regarding use of control measure of rice diseases.
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