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Adoption of Jute Production Technology in West Bengal

Economic Affairs-Quarterly Journal of Ecnomics

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0424-2513
 
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Title Statement Adoption of Jute Production Technology in West Bengal
 
Added Entry - Uncontrolled Name Mondal, Debabrata
Bandyopadhyay, A K
Department of Agricultural Extension, Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Statistics, Palli Siksha Bhavana, Institute of Agriculture, Visva Bharati, Sriniketan, West Bengal
Department of Agricultural Extension, B.C.K.V, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal
 
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Summary, etc. Jute being crop is an important source of income of growers of West Bengal. In jute cultivation requires a considerable amount of cash investment, an average grown has to face a number of socio-economic and technological problems. A study was conducted on adoption of jute production technology in West Bengal. The objective of this study is to measure the knowledge level adoption index to some important jute production technologies and to find out nature of influence of some of the socio-personal characteristics of the jute growers on their knowledge and adoption of modern jute technologies. Villages were selected as progressive and non-progressive with regard to agro-technological criteria of jute cultivation. The members were selected randomly and total numbers of respondents were 112. The data were processed into mean, median, standard deviation and correlation co-efficient. The factors like mass media exposure, personal cosmopolite sources, age, education and extra village contact are found to have influenced to significant extent the knowledge where the investigation was carried out.
 
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Electronic Location and Access http://www.myresearchjournals.com/index.php/Eaffairs/article/view/235
 
Data Source Entry Economic Affairs; Vol 59 (2014): Volume 59 - Special Issue
 
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