Abstract
Tomato is one of the most important vegetable crops and it plays significant role in daily diet - and hence, it is considered as a vital commercial and dietary vegetable. During 2017-2018, the area under tomato cultivation in Tamil Nadu was 29.08 ha. Even though the production is high, the farmers are struggling to meet out the demand of the growing population. The study on the knowledge level of the farmers on recommended cultivation practices is beneficial to assess the technology reach about the recommended cultivation practices of tomato. The study was conducted in the Chellampatti block of Madurai district. Ninety respondents were selected by employing proportionate random sampling technique. The Statistical tools such as mean, standard deviation and percentage analysis were used. Majority of the respondents (56.67%) had medium level of knowledge on recommended practices of tomato cultivation followed by high (22.22%) and low (21.11%) knowledge. Majority of the tomato growers (54.44%) had medium level of adoption of tomato cultivation practices followed by low (30.00%) and high (15.56%) level of adoption. Cent percentage of the respondents were possessed with the correct knowledge on practices like season of sowing, farmyard Manure, planting material, transplanting, spacing, manual weeding and symptom of harvest. They had insufficient knowledge on practices like seed treatment with bio-fertilizer (22.22%), damping-off (33.33%), tomato spotted wilt (41.11%) and weedicide application (44.44%)
Highlights
India ranks second in the world’s tomatoproducing countries, next to China
Tamil Nadu contributes a share of tomato cultivation as 29.08 ha area and the production as 887.08 MT in the year 2017-18 and the productivity of tomato was 30.51 MT ha-1 (Horticultural Statistics at a Glance, 2018)
The knowledge level of the respondents on recommended tomato cultivation practices was shown in Table 1 and Figure 1
Summary
The production of tomato during 2017-2018 was around 197 lakh tonnes as against 207 lakh tonnes in 2016 -2017 which is about 3 per cent higher than the last five years average production. The productivity of tomato in India was 25.04 MT ha-1 in the year 2017-18. Tamil Nadu contributes a share of tomato cultivation as 29.08 ha area and the production as 887.08 MT in the year 2017-18 and the productivity of tomato was 30.51 MT ha-1 (Horticultural Statistics at a Glance, 2018). Knowledge is a fundamental key for adopting any innovation. The benefits and importance of any innovation is understood by the knowledge. Knowledge of a person is acquired by learning and by experience.It could be the doorway for adoption.
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