Biseshwar Sxena1and 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-20.10.2015
Abstract: 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 majority of the respondents were in the young age group (up to 35 years) with high school level of education. Majority of the respondents belongs to medium size families and they had maximum experience 11 to 20 years in tomato cultivation and most of the respondents were belonging to schedule tribe category of caste. Regarding the socio-economic characteristics, the study revealed that majority of tomato growers (47.22%) had big size of land holding and only 12.5 percent belonged to small farmer category. The majority of them (34.72%) belonged to annual income category of up to Rs. 25,000 while only few had more than Rs 75,000 income per year. Majority of respondents i.e. 52.77 percent had high level of economic motivation and only 8.33 percent respondents had low level of economic motivation about tomato production technology.
Keywords: Tomato Cultivation, Socio-economic, Characteristics
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