Relationship between farm managerial ability of cotton growers with their profile

Cotton, the important cash crop, globally known as “King of Fibre” offers an important natural fabric material to the world has been a point of fascination. It is an important fiber crop of global importance, which belongs to the genus Gossypium in the family Malvaceae. Cotton in a way is a gift of the Indian subcontinent to human civilization. The state of Gujarat has the monopoly in cotton production in the country. The districts of Rajkot, Surendranagar and Amreli are major pockets for cotton cultivation in Saurashtra region.The present study was concentrated in twenty-four villages from six talukas were selected randomly. From each selected village, 12 cotton growers was considered as respondents, altogether a total sample size of 288 was taken for study. From the above result it can be concluded that education, farming experience, training received, size of land holding, annual income, extension participation, mass media exposure, innovativeness, knowledge, scientific orientation, market orientation, irrigation potentiality, cropping intensity, yield index and farm mechanization index towards farm managerial ability found positively highly significant.