Extent of adoption of ANGRAU technologies in Bengal gram crop in YSR district of Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract

Bengalgram is the major pulse crop of YSR District grown exclusively during Rabi season covering 1,05,462 hectares. ANGRAU was established during 1964 and developed different agricultural technologies in various crops. But the adoption of those technologies was not documented officially. The present study was conducted during 2019-20 in YSR Kadapa district with 60 number of respondents selected from 12 number of villages and 6 number of mandals from YSR Kadapa district to study the extent of adoption of ANGRAU technologies and the reasons for non adoption of the recommended technologies in Bengalgram crop. The major findings of the study indicate that majority of the farmers (96.67 %) adopted Inter cultivation twice at 20 and 30 DAS, followed by 90.00% adopted Sowing Time-October-November, followed by Fertilisers-20 Kg N, 50Kg P2 O5 , 40 Kg sulphur and 50Kg/ha, Zn as basal dose (86.67%), followed by Curative spray either Monocrotophos @ 1.6 ml or Acephate @ 1.0 g or Quinalphos @ 2.0 ml or Thio dicarb @ 1 g/l (80%). The reasons expressed by the farmers (80.00%) for non adoption of spacing 30x10 cm was due to high seed rate, followed by 75.00 per cent of farmers expressed the reason for non adoption of Neem Seed Kernel Extract 5 % (NSKE 5%) as it is laborious.