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Factors influencing the farmers adoption of the maintenance practices of plant protection appliances

Volume : 87
Issue: Apr-jun
Pages: 200 - 202
Published: June 24, 2023
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Abstract


The Study was carried out in a randomly selected four Assistant Agricultural Officers (AAO) segments in V.O.Chidambaranar district. A sample of 30 owner farmers, those who owned sprayer were selected randomly. Data were collected through well structured interview schedule. Five maintenance practices and fifteen factors were selected through judges opinion. Results indicate that majority of the owner farmers had low level of adoption of maintenance practices. There was negative and highly significant relationship of knowledge of owner farmers with their extent of adoption of maintenance practices of plant protection appliances.

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200 - 202
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Owner farmers Practices Plant protection appliances Factors Adoption of maintenance
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