Vol. 8, Issue 6 (2020)

Pomegranate is gaining a lot of attention world over because of its high economic and neutraceutical values. India is the largest pomegranate producer in the world (8.6 lakhs tones) sharing about 36% of the world’s production. India with diverse soil and climate comprising several agro-ecological regions provides ample opportunity to grow a variety of horticultural crops. These crops form a significant part of total agricultural produce in the country. The study revealed that the majority of the pomegranate growers had 36 to 50 years age, received up to degree and higher education, had higher socio-economic status, cosmopoliteness and small land holding, cultivating the pomegranate crop on 2.01 to 5.00 hectares of their land holding, had annual income between Rs. 4, 00,001/- to 7, 00,000/-, were having higher scientific orientation (60.44%), economic motivation (58.22) and innovativeness (40.44%), 44.89, 38.67 and 25.33% had partial knowledge about symptoms of various diseases viz., bacterial blight, fruit spots and wilt complex, respectively. The respondents (68.00%) had partial knowledge about spraying of bactinashak after harvest of first bahar.