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Knowledge on Export by Orange Growers in Vidarbha

2018; Volume: 7; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.24214/jecet.a.7.3.46470

2278-179X

Livestock Management and Performance Improvement

The present study entitled "Knowledge on export by Orange Growers in Vidarbha" was undertaken in Kalmeshwar, Katol and Narkhed talukas of Nagpur district and Warud and Morshi talukas Amravati districts with sample size of the 120 respondent orange growers.Majority of the respondents were belonged to middle age group with education up to higher secondary school level, nearly half of them had farming occupation with a medium family size, belonged to medium land holding with annual income between Rs. 3,00,001 to 4,00,000.Nearly half of the respondents had medium social participation and mass media participation, one by third of the respondents had not received any training and more than two third of respondents had well/ tube well as their source of irrigation.In case of export knowledge majority of the orange growers had medium level of knowledge on export.Whereas, in case of export knowledge components more than half of the orange growers had medium knowledge about export standards and nearly four by fifth of the orange growers had low level of knowledge about export procedures.The export knowledge index shows that majority of the respondents (42.75%) belonged to medium category.In the correlation analysis of export knowledge with independent variables, the variables namely, education, mass media participation and training received bear positive and high significance (significance at 0.01 level of probability).The independent variables like family size and sources of irrigation were non-significantly related with export knowledge.