Knowledge performance of the farmers practicing groundnut based cropping systems in Tumkur district of Karnataka

Groundnut is the major oilseed crop grow in Tumkur district of Karnataka. It is important to know the present scenario of adoption of improved cultivation practices to get to know the adoption gaps and knowledge gaps resulting in lower yields and higher cost of cultivation. Majority of the farmers follow groundnut solo cropping and inter cropping with redgram, sixty farmers from each cropping system were selected from sira and pavagada taluks of Tumkur district. The study revealed that, interestingly the knowledge level is quite high among the farmers practicing groundnut intercropping with redgram. The more gap exist in adoption of production technologies like gypsum application, seed treatment, soil testing and application of micro nutrients. These have to be addressed through awareness creation programmes and facilitating environment for adoption of improved cultivation practices, and reducing cost of cultivation, thereby increasing profits per unit area resulting in improvised livelihoods of the farmers in a sustainable way.