Perception and adoption of soil testing of the farmers with respect their socio-economic character: A study in Cooch Behar District
Journal Title: Agricultural Extension Journal - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Soil testing is essential part of every farmer. Different government organisation took initiative to aware the farmer about soil testing. Farmers were perceived andAdoptingsoil test. But still a problem was found by Cooch BeharKrishiVigyan Kendra that farmer adoption and perception of soil testing were not homogeneous. So a study was conducted atGopalpur village in Coochbehar district, West Bengal to know the farmer perception and adoption of soil testing with their socio-economic variable. The data were collected during February, 2016. The research design was followed in the study was survey research method. The sample size of the study was 100.The dependent variables of this study wereperception and adoption and independent variables were age,gender, number of family member, caste,land holding, education andannual income. The descriptive statistics like frequency, percentage, range were used for the investigation. This study had shown the relation of theperception and adoption of soil testing with the different independent variable.
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