Modernization of agriculture for crop residue management and knowledge of farmers alongwith reasons for adoption and nonadoption of super seeder in Haryana Kathpalia Jatesh1,*, Tyagi Rashmi2, Saroha Anil Kumar3, Kumari Vinod4 1Assistant Scientist, Department of Sociology, CCSHAU, Hisar-125004, Haryana 2Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, CCSHAU, Hisar-125004, Haryana 3Assistant Professor, Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125004, Haryana 4Professor & Head, Department of Sociology, CCSHAU, Hisar-125004, Haryana *Corresponding author email id: kathpaliajatesh@gmail.com
Online Published on 18 March, 2024. Abstract The goals of agricultural modernization include increasing output while posing no risks to the environment or the welfare of animals, reducing rural poverty and ensuring food security, as well as increasing farm profitability and optimising the use of natural resources. New technologies have long been a source of interest for farmers seeking to reduce costs of cultivation. Super seeder is one of the agricultural technology which is used for sowing of wheat crop. A super seeder is a tractor-mounted machine that chops and lifts rice straw, sows wheat in the soil, and then spreads the straw as mulch over the sowed area. In the field, it also cultivates the paddy straw. As a result, the super seeder is the most effective method for sowing wheat in paddy residue without allowing the straw to burn.So keeping in mind the importance of farm mechanization and sustaible development a study was carried out in Fatehabad district of Haryana state among 120 adopter and non adopter farmers of super seeder farm technology with the objectives to know the knowledge level and reasons behind the adoption and non adoption of super seeder. Data were collected with survey method with the help of well structured interview schedule. Statistical techniques like frequency, chi square, weighted mean scores and rank order were applied as per the objectives of the study. The results revealed that highest percentage of the farmers were having medium level of knowledge i.e. 41.67 per cent followed by 30.00 per cent and 28.33 per cent who were having high and low level of knowledge respectively. Socio-economic variables which exhibit influence on the knowledge level of the farmers who adopted Super Seeder showed that age, level of education, subsidiary occupation, size of land holding, size of family, annual income, social participation, mass media exposure, socio economic status were significantly associated with knowledge level of the farmers regarding super seeder. Reasons for the adoption of Super Seeder revealed that more than 3/4th of the farmers were agreed about using Super Seeder machine incorporate paddy stubble in soil, so there is no need of burning the residue in the field, therefore it is environment friendly technology (rank I). Evidently show the requirement of high hp tractor as one of the reason for non-adoption of Super Seeder followed by high cost of machine. Top Keywords Agriculture, Modernization, Sustainability, Super seeder, Knowledge, Reasons for adoption and non adoption. Top |