Study on Adoption Level of Integrated Pest Management (Ipm) Practices in Paddy Crop in Etawah District of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

The present investigation entitled ~~study on adoption level of Integrated Pest Management (I PM) practices in paddy crop in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh", with the following objectives i.e. socio-economic profile of paddy growers, knowledge and adoption level of paddy growers regarding IPM practices, constraints faced by the paddy growers regarding adoption of IPM practices and suggestions for improvement of IPM practices. The result revealed that most of the respondents were belonging to medium age group and mostly they were belonging to other backward caste, their educational level were up to lntennediate and maximum respondents were married and living jointly. Most of the respondents were not member of any fonnal or informal organization, their land holding size were small, they were using radio/ television for obtaining infonnation related to agriculture and allied sectors. Maximum respondents were having electricity connection at home. • XI Most of the paddy growers were having fully knowledge in summer deep ploughing, crop rotation under cultural method, dummy in crop under mechanical method. Most of the paddy growers were unknown about natural enemies, pheromone trap, resistant varieties, bio-agents, bio-fertilizer, bio-pesticides, use of rope in standing crop, chemical pesticides application and their name and partial known about Neembased product, rouging practices, removal of previous crop residues, mixed cropping, recommended dose of pesticides. High adoption level was found in summer deep ploughing under cultural method, dummy under mechanical method. Most of paddy growers were medium adoption about Neem-based products, seed treatment, soil treatment, recommended dose of pesticides and proper spacing in crop and low adoption level was found in application of resistant varieties, bio-agents, bio-fertilizer, bio-pesticides, chemical pesticides application and their name, natural enemies, light and pheromone trap. The major constraints of paddy growers were found lack of storage facilities to keep IPM material in rural areas, Quality IPM materials are not available in government sale centre's, insufficient training/ information centre's in the rural area Improved IPM tools/modules are not easily available at rural areas in adoption of IPM practices.