Correlates of adoption of improved sericulture practices

• Published in: Indian Journal of Extension Education (India) Vol. 39; no. 1-2
• Main Authors: Motamed, M.K., University of Guilan, Guilan (Iran). Director Agriculture, Singh, B., Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India). Div. of Agricultural Extension
• Format: Publication
• Language: English
• Published: 01.01.2003
• Subjects: EXTENSION ACTIVITIES; FARMERS; INNOVATION ADOPTION; SERICULTURE; SOCIOECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT

The study was conducted in four randomly selected village of Dehradun district of Uttaranchal state to identify the socio-economic and personal factors affecting adoption of improved sericulture practices. The data collected from 100 randomly selected respondent revealed that the personal variables namely age, education, sociai participation, utilization of information source, mass media exposure, annual income, extension contact, economic motivation marketing support and socio economic status correlated significantly with adoption of improved sericulture practices at 0.0 1 level of probability. Among thetn, the correlation of age with knowledge was negative, while all other correlations were positive. However, the correIiltions between family size and land holding were found to be negative and non-significant. The statistical tests using multiple regression analysis revealed that among the variables studied, only education, social participation, mass media exposure, extension contact and economic motivation were found to exhibit positively significant contribution towards adoption gain of sericulture practices at 1 per cent level of probability. Majority (73 percent) had medium level of adoption of improved sericulture practices.