Extent of Knowledge Level of Farmers About Improved Maize Production Technology in Saharsa District of Bihar
2021
Sarvesh Kumar, | Mishra, O.P.
Knowledge is one of the most vital inputs for development because everything we do depends upon knowledge. Keeping the importance in assessing knowledge of clietele in the field of Extension Education, an attempt has been made to build up a knowledge test for measuring knowledge level of maize growers about improved maize production technology in Saharsa district of Bihar state. Maize (Zeamays) is one of the most important cereal crops in the world grown over in area of 132 m.ha. with a production of 570 mt. It is the crop with the highest per day productivity. In India, maize is next in important crop after rice and has acreage around 6 m.ha with a production of 10.5m.t. Maize is the third most important cereal crop of the country after rice and wheat. Maize is a non-tiller plant. It is valued as food, feed, fodder and industrial raw material. In view of maize being produced under very diverse ecology in our country, development of high yielding hybrids with in-built resistance and tolerance to diseases, pests and various climatic stresses; and development and fine-tuning of production ecology are our top priorities. During last 10 years, more than 120 hybrids have been developed and released in addition to development of various production technologies. Classification of maize on the basis of endosperm characteristics. It is classified in to seven groups. They are Dent corn, Flint corn, Sweet corn, Flour corn, Popcorn, Waxy corn, and Pod corn. The developed knowledge test was administered to the selected 220 respondents selected for the study. With the using of this test it was found that majority of the respondents had medium level of knowledge (52.27%) followed by low (28.18%) and high (19.55%) about improved maize production Technology.
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