Knowledge Level of Finger Millet Growers about Nutrient Management Practices in Krishnagiri District of Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Finger millet is an important small millet crop among other millets in India. In Tamil Nadu, it covers an area of 1,04,426 ha with a production of 349.63 lakh tonnesand an average productivity of 3348 kg ha-1. Nutrient application in finger millet can effectively increase the yield. As the nutrient management practices in finger millet plays an important role in yield increase, an ex-post facto study was conducted to study the knowledge level of finger millet growers about recommended nutrient management practices. The study was conducted in Thally and Kelamangalam blocks of Krishnagiri district with a sample size of 120 finger millet growers. It was found that most respondents possessed a medium to high level of knowledge about recommended nutrient management practices andalso, it was found thattraining was the most influencing factor on the knowledge level of the respondents. Hence, the state department of agriculture has to carry out necessary extension interventions such as result demonstration, training programmes and field visits to increase the knowledge level of the farmers on recommended nutrient management practices in finger millet cultivation.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.000518

Pages

359 - 364

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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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