Correlation analysis for adoption studies of rice growers in district Baramulla of Kashmir Division, India

Abstract

This study about the correlation analysis for adoption and knowledge of rice growers was carried in 12 randomly selected villages of 3 tehsils prominently growing rice of district Baramulla of J&K state. After multi-stage random 10 rice growers from each village were selected randomly and systematic sampling technique a sample of 120 rice farmers was drawn.  It was found that Knowledge were found positively correlated with Education (0.449⁾ Occupation (0.356⁾, Social participation (0.205), annual income (0.229⁾, Mass media exposure (0.375⁾, Extension contacts (0.219⁾ and Scientific orientation (0.341⁾ and Adoption were  also found positively correlated with Education (0.447⁾ Occupation (0.348⁾, Social participation (0.301), Annual income (0.243⁾, Mass media exposure (0.309⁾, Extension contacts (0.243⁾ and Scientific orientation (0.338⁾ whereas Age, Family size, Land holding and Farming experience have no significance with knowledge and adoption level of famers. The significance at 0.01 level of variables like Education, Occupation, Social Participation, Annual income, Mass Media Exposure, Extension contacts and Scientific Orientation with dependent variable Knowledge and adoption level of rice growers. The results of the study indicated that these selected variables might play a very important role in increasing the Knowledge and adoption level of the package of practices by rice growers of Kashmir Division.