Adoption of Recommended Technologies in Arecanu Cultivation in Salem District of Tamilnadu
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 3
Abstract
ABSTRACT Arecanut (Areca catechu) is one of the important cash crops grown in India. It is used in Hindu religious rites, medicinal value of alkaloids extracted from nuts, chewing and mastication with betel leaves. India accounts 49.74 per cent of its world production of arecanut. In Tamil Nadu north western zone has maximum area under arecanut cultivation. The study was conducted in Salem district and it occupies first in area and production in arecanut in Tamil Nadu. The study was conducted with 120 arecanut growers. The results revealed that only 15.83 per cent of respondents were adopted recommended varieties and rest of the respondents were adopted the local variety due to good nut size, suitability to climatic conditions, trader’s preferability and long life of palms. The adoption of crop production technologies and manure fertilizers were tending to be the maximum adoption of recommended technologies in arecanut cultivation. The plant protection technologies were low to medium category of adoption due to organic practices followed in the study area.
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Mohanraj, V, Velusamy R., Mahandrakumar K
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