Adoption Behaviour and Constraints in Wheat Production Technologies for Higher Wheat Productivity in Hills of Uttarakhand

The study was carried out to determine the farmers’ adoption behaviour on wheat production technologies. The farmers were selected from Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand and were demonstrated production technology during 2008–09 and 2009–2010. It was revealed that 32 per cent farmers fully adopted demonstrated wheat production technology whereas 24.9 per cent farmers adopted partially.The major constraints observed in wheat production was lack of irrigation facility as well as mechanization. In wheat, under irrigated condition yield of 29.8 q/ha was recorded which was 32.4 per cent higher than farmers’ practice while in rain fed condition demonstrated plot resulted in 16.2 per cent higher yield over farmers’ practice. The B:C ratio of demonstrated plots under irrigated condition was 1.35 and of farmers’ practice was 0.90 while under rain fed condition B:C ratio of demonstrated plots was 0.66 and of farmers’ practice was 0.45.