Knowledge level of farmers’ regarding photovoltaic water pumping system: Comparative study between Hisar, Rohtak, and Jhajjar districts of Haryana state

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Anil Kumar, Ashok Kumar Godara, Ashok Kumar, and Jitender Kumar Bhatia (Department of Extension Education, COA, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana)

The study was conducted in purposively selected Hisar, Rohtak, and Jhajjar districts of Haryana state with selected 61, 47 and 33 number of Photovoltaic Water Pumping System (PWPS) farmers from each district, respectively. In this way a total number of 141 respondents were selected in the sample for the study. The study revealed that maximum number of respondent fell under medium technical knowledge, general knowledge and overall knowledge in Hisar, Rohtak and Jhajjar districts. Majority of respondents favorable attitude towards PWPS in all three districts. According to aspects wise farmers’ attitude towards PWPS the statement “PWPS is better than the electricity or diesel water pumping system” occupied the top position. in Hisar and Rohtak district farmers, while in district Jhajjars ‘farmers the 1st rank statement is, “PWPS is most important factor to sustain the grain revolution”. land holding, education, socio-economic status, extension contact , source of income, and risk orientation were found to have positive and significant regression coefficient whereas age, caste, occupation, house type, social participation, material possession, farm power, family type, change proneness and fatalism were found to have positive but non significant regression coefficient with the knowledge of PWPS farmers.