Awareness and Extent of Adoption of Crop Residue Management Technologies: A Sociological Analysis

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Harvinder Kaur¹, Vinod Kumari², Jatesh Kathpalia³, Bharat Singh⁴, D.P Malik⁵, and Raj Singh⁶ (Department of Sociology, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana¹,²,³, Department of Extension Education, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana⁴, Department of Agriculture Economics, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana⁵, Department of Agriculture Meteorology, CCS HAU, Hisar, Haryana⁶)

Crop residue management is essential because it contains several nutrients which are helpful for enhancing the production of the next crop, there are several uses of crop residues except burning. The study was conducted in 2022-23 to find the awareness and extent of adoption of crop residue management technologies in Fatehabad or Karnal districts of Haryana state. A well-structured and pre-tested interview schedule was constructed according to the objective of the study. Two blocks from each district were selected randomly, and twelve villages (three from each block) were selected randomly to collect data. Further 20 respondents were selected from each village through a simple random sampling technique. Thus, total 240 respondents were interviewed. The present study revealed that (100.0%) respondents were aware soil incorporation, fodder bank, and bailing. Extent of adoption of was low (58.7%) followed by medium (32.5%). The study was concluded that the awareness of respondents of crop residue management was good but the extent of adoption were low due less timely availability of crop residue management technologies or the short time window between harvesting or the next crop growing.