Knowledge and Adoption of Indigenous Technology Practices (ITPs) of Farmers in J&K State Bhushan Bharat*, Malik J.S.**, Joint Director Extension, Sharma Rakesh***, Sharma U.K.****, Sr. DES (FM) *SMS, Agril. Extension, KVK SKAUST-J, DODA **CCSU, Hissar ***SMS, Agril. Extension, KVK SKAUST-J, Rajouri ****KVK (CCSHAU), Jhajjar Abstract The importance of Indigenous Knowledge can be understood when one realizer that there are no rice or wheat plants or cotton or mustard found lying around in the forest. The fact is that communities of men and women over generations have bred races of several food and cash crops out of the wild species of these plants. The present investigation was conducted in three districts viz. Kathua, Jammu and Udhampur of Jammu and Kashmir State. The samples of 240 respondents were selected through simple random sampling technique. In order to finding out the levels of knowledge and adoption of ITPs of agriculture schedule was prepared. The results revealed that 17.5 per cent, 67.5 per cent and 15 per cent farmers fell under the categories of high, medium, and low knowledge levels, respectively about Indigenous Technological Practices of agriculture. Besides this,62.91 per cent of the respondent were found to be medium adopters, while 14.17 and 22.92 per cent of the farmers were low and high adopters of Indigenous Technological Practices (ITPs), respectively. Top |