The Effect of Population Level and Technology toward the Oyster Mushroom Production

Hem Prakash Verma, Eshant Kumar Sukdeve and Rupesh Khaparde

Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, 2023, vol. 41, issue 9, 8

Abstract: The study was conducted during the year 2018-19 in Raipur and Dhamtari district of the Chhattisgarh state. The reason for selecting the districts because Front Line Demonstration of particular oyster mushroom production was conducted in these districts. The stakeholders like researchers, progressive growers, business personnel and self-help group of oyster mushroom production were selected, in this way the total 60 stakeholders were selected for the study. The data were collected by personally interview with the help of pre-tested interview schedule. A list of variables to be dealt with was prepared based on Adoption Diffusion Outcome Prediction Tool which having four quadrants that were considered for analysis are as follows: (1) Relative advantage for the farming population, (2) Learnability characteristics of the innovation, (3) Population-specific influences on the ability to learn about the practice, and (4) Relative advantage of the technology [1] and collected data were classified, tabulated and analysed using descriptive statistics like mean, frequency, and percentage. Majority of respondents were oriented towards income increment and profit maximization. oyster mushroom production enterprise is coming under the 'easily trialable' category (60.00%) followed by 'moderately trialable’ category (25.00%). With regarding to ease and convenience, the results from highlights that oyster mushroom production considered under ‘small increase in ease and convenience’ category (38.33%) followed by ‘large increase in ease and convenience’ category (30.00%).

Keywords: Crop; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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