Knowledge and adoption of pearl millet recommended technologies between two districts in Haryana

The advert of settled life happened with the beginning of agriculture when people started cultivating food for their livelihood. Agriculture is the vertical backbone of the country. Major part of country’s population earns its livelihood from agriculture. Our country has a wide and very old setting of agriculture of about 10 thousand years. Agriculture, with its allied sectors, is the largest source of livelihoods in India. Haryana is a primarily an agriculture state. About 70 percent residences are engaged in agriculture. There are two main types of crop in Haryana: Rabi and Kharif. The major Kharif crops of Haryana are paddy, jwar, bajra, maize, cotton, jute, sugarcane, sesame and groundnut. In India, more than 70 percent of the pearl millet area is accounted by 3 states viz., Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujarat. In terms of production share, Rajasthan, UP and Gujarat accounts 77 percent of the total produce (Nagaraj, 2012). In india the production value of pearl millet (bajra) was 10.49 million metric tons in the financial year 2020-2021. There was an increase in production as compared to previous financial year 2018-2019 in which the production value was 8.66 million metric tons. The Study was conducted in Hisar and Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana state. Two blocks namely Hisar-2 and Badhra selected randomly. Total four villages i.e. two from each block namely Kharia and Dobhi from Hisar -2 block and Nandha and Kadma from Badhra were selected randomly. Total 240 respondents i. e. 60 respondents were selected from each village by covering 30 male and 30 female respondents from each village, thus comprising a sample of 240 respondents were selected randomly. In total pre production to post harvesting technologies found that majority of the respondents knowledge and adoption about seed rate, thining, interculture mechanical weed management, plant protection measures and appropriate harvesting technologies whereas less knowledge and adoption about varieties, seed treatment, direction of sowing, SSP fertilizers, weedicies, chemical doze and zinc nutrient deficiency. In Hisar District respondents had more knowledge and adoption of recommended technologies as compared to Charkhi Dadri district. And also found that majority of the male respondents had more knowledge and adoption as compared to female respondents.