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- Title
Knowledge Level on Recommended Cultivation Practices for Tomato among the Tomato Growers in Madurai District.
- Authors
Sangavi M.; Janaki Rani A.
- Abstract
Tomato is one of the most important vegetable crops and it plays significant role in daily diet - and hence, it is considered as a vital commercial and dietary vegetable. During 2017-2018, the area under tomato cultivation in Tamil Nadu was 29.08 ha. Even though the production is high, the farmers are struggling to meet out the demand of the growing population. The study on the knowledge level of the farmers on recommended cultivation practices is beneficial to assess the technology reach about the recommended cultivation practices of tomato. The study was conducted in the Chellampatti block of Madurai district. Ninety respondents were selected by employing proportionate random sampling technique. The Statistical tools such as mean, standard deviation and percentage analysis were used. Majority of the respondents (56.67%) had medium level of knowledge on recommended practices of tomato cultivation followed by high (22.22%) and low (21.11%) knowledge. Majority of the tomato growers (54.44%) had medium level of adoption of tomato cultivation practices followed by low (30.00%) and high (15.56%) level of adoption. Cent percentage of the respondents were possessed with the correct knowledge on practices like season of sowing, farmyard Manure, planting material, transplanting, spacing, manual weeding and symptom of harvest. They had insufficient knowledge on practices like seed treatment with bio-fertilizer (22.22%), damping-off (33.33%), tomato spotted wilt (41.11%) and weedicide application (44.44%).
- Subjects
MADURAI (India); TAMIL Nadu (India); TOMATO growers; TOMATO farming; TOMATO spotted wilt virus disease; SEED treatment; STATISTICAL sampling; TOMATOES
- Publication
Madras Agricultural Journal, 2021, Vol 108, Issue 7-9, p357
- ISSN
0024-9602
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29321/MAJ.10.000515