EXTENT OF ADOPTION OF ANGRAU TECHNOLOGIES IN BENGALGRAM CROP IN YSR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIAS. Ramalakshmi Devi, A. Veeraiah, T. Swami Chaitanya and V. ShilpakalaAbstract Bengalgram is the major pulse crop of YSR District grown exclusively during Rabi season covering 1,05,462hectares. ANGRAU was established during 1964 and developed different agricultural technologies in variouscrops. But the adoption of those technologies was not documented officially. The present study wasconducted during 2019-20 in YSR Kadapa district with 60 number of respondents selected from 12 numberof villages and 6 number of mandals from YSR Kadapa district to study the extent of adoption of ANGRAUtechnologies and the reasons for non adoption of the recommended technologies in Bengalgram crop. Themajor findings of the study indicate that majority of the farmers (96.67 %) adopted Inter cultivation twice at20 and 30 DAS, followed by 90.00% adopted Sowing Time-October-November, followed by Fertilisers-20Kg N, 50Kg P2O5, 40 Kg sulphur and 50Kg/ha, Zn as basal dose (86.67%), followed by Curative spray eitherMonocrotophos @ 1.6 ml or Acephate @ 1.0 g or Quinalphos @ 2.0 ml or Thio dicarb @ 1 g/l (80%). Thereasons expressed by the farmers (80.00%) for non adoption of spacing 30x10 cm was due to high seed rate,followed by 75.00 per cent of farmers expressed the reason for non adoption of Neem Seed Kernel Extract5 % (NSKE 5%) as it is laborious. |