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标题：A Study on Extent of Adoption of Agri Waste Management Practices by the Farmers of Medak District of Telangana, India
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作者：G.Ravi ; B.Savitha ; M.Sreenivasulu 等
期刊名称：Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology
电子版ISSN：2320-7027
出版年度：2021
卷号：39
期号：4
页码：125-133
DOI：10.9734/ajaees/2021/v39i430567
语种：English
出版社：Sciencedomain International
摘要：Agricultural waste refers to waste produced from agricultural operations, including waste from farms, poultry houses and slaughterhouses. The present study was focused on, to study the extent of adoption of agri waste management practices and its relationship with the profile of the farmers. The Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study with a sample of 120, covering Medak district of Telangana state. From the analysis, it was found that majority of the farmers (45.80%) fall under the category of medium adoption, followed by low (27.50%) and high (26.70%) adoption categories with regards to the adoption of agri waste management practices. Correlation analysis between extent of adoption of agri waste management practices and profile characteristics of respondents revealed that, information seeking behavior had positive and significant relationship with adoption at one percent level of significance. The variables education, cropping pattern, infrastructure facilities, innovativeness, achievement motivation, training undergone had positive and farming experience had negative significant relationship with adoption at five per cent level of significance. The remaining variables, age, cropping intensity had negatively and farm size, level of aspiration had positively non-significant relationship with extent of adoption of agri waste management practices.
关键词：Agriwaste;management practices;adoption