Vol. 7, Issue 6 (2019)
Use of various pesticides and opinion of green chilli growers about green chilli growing in Amravati and Buldana district
Author(s): NP Jangwad, PK Wakle, DM Mankar, RS Raut, SV Patil and SA Gawande
Abstract: The present research was undertaken on topic ‘Perception of green chilli growers regarding environmental risk in use of pesticides in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state’ conducted purposively in two district viz, Amravati and Buldana as it considered as a progressive agricultural belt, best suited climate, soil, irrigation facilities, skill and intensive cultivation practices adopted by the green chilli farmers and maximum area under green chilli crop. Ex-post facto research design was used for the present research. Out of two districts, two talukas and 20 villageshad maximum area under green chilli were selected i.e Total 300 green chilli growers constitute the sample size. The findings of the research study revealed that Majority of the green chilli growers (50.33%) were found in the middle age group, followed by (26.33%) in young age group and rest (23.34%) of green chilli growers in old age group whereas Higher percentage of the green chilli growers (31.00%) had educated up to higher secondary level,large majority (63.33 %) of the green chilli growers had medium level of knowledge regarding different areas of pesticides, 19.33 of the green chilli growers had low level of knowledge regarding different areas of pesticides, followed by 17.34 per cent of green chilli growershad highlevel of knowledge regarding different areas of pesticides. (49.00%) of the green chilli growers followed recommended doses of Dr. PDKV, Akola module, while 51.00 per cent of the green chilli growers used higher doses without Dr. PDKV, Akola module i.e other type of pesticides for sprying on green chilli crop in their field. Majority (93.00%) of the green chilli growers had expressed that growing of green chilli crop is profitable enterprise, 83.00 per cent expressed that growing of green chilli that is laborious job followed by (67.00%) green chilli growers had expressed growing of chilli crop is easy in cultivation than other crop.
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NP Jangwad, PK Wakle, DM Mankar, RS Raut, SV Patil, SA Gawande. Use of various pesticides and opinion of green chilli growers about green chilli growing in Amravati and Buldana district. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(6):2418-2424.
