Studies on Constraints, Knowledge and Adoption Level of Sericulture Technologies in North Western and Western Zone of Tamil Nadu

Abstract

The present study was conducted among 200 randomly selected farmers in north western and western zones of Tamil Nadu. The knowledge and adoption level of technologies were analyzed using knowledge and adoption index for both the zones. Knowledge of sericulture technologies in north western and western zones were 77.02 per cent and 91.04 per cent respectively. The linear discriminate analysis revealed that, dfls/ha/year and price of cocoon were the factors highly discriminated the low and high adoption group of farmers. In north western zone, high cost of inputs and non availability of chawki worm centres whereas the main constraints in mulberry production and silkworm rearing, middlemen interference was considered as main constraint in marketing of cocoon. In western zone, non availability and high cost of human labour were considered as the main problem in mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing. Lack of competitive marketing was the Sericulture technology, major constraint in marketing of cocoons in western zone.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.001423

Pages

866 - 871

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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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