Biseshwar Sxena1 and S. Narbaria*2
Department of Agricultural Extension, Collage of Agriculture, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur – 492012 (C.G.), India
Email: sunilag22@gmail.com
Received-10.10.2015, Revised-22.10.2015
Abstract: Adoption of any production technology depends on the availability of the essential resources. The present investigation was carried out in the six purposively selected villages of Pathalogon Block of Jashpur district. Seventy two respondents were selected randomly and personally interviewed with the help of the structured interview schedule. The study revealed that the all the seventy two tomato growing farmers (100 %) reported that they were not getting desired price for their produce and 86.11 per cent respondent highlighted the lack of transportation facilities. The same percentage of the respondents (86.11 %) also encountered with the problem of non-availability and unreliable cost of fertilizers. 77.77 and 52.77 per cent respondents reported the problems like non-availability of information related to improved tomato production technology at the right andd non-availability of insecticides & fungicides respectively. Whereas only 27 tomato growing farmers were (37.5 %) reported lack of capital as constraints.
Keywords: Tomato Cultivation, Adoption, Constraints and improved production practices
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