Association factors of with the adoption of watershed technology by the farmers ofsidhi district

The present study was conducted in purposively selected Devsar watershed area situated in Devsar block of Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh. There are 13 micro centres in Devsar watershed area and all were selected purposively. From each micro center 10 beneficery farmers were selected randomly for the study. Thus, the total respondents for the study were 130 from 13 micro centres. Attributes of respondent's viz.,education, type of family, economic motivation, risk preference, extension participation and socio-economic status had strong and positive association with their extent of adoption of watershed management practices. About 45% variation in extent of adoption was explained by all ten independent variables taken