A study on the general behaviour and attitude of the garlic growers of Malwa Plateau in Madhya Pradesh

The traits like age, education level, exposure to mass media, contact with agricultural scientists, risk taking behavior and innovation proneness of the garlic growers of three villages of Ujjain block, Malwa plateau viz Jalalkhedi, Dewrakhedi and Akasoda with sample size of 36, 32 and 57, respectively, (total 125) were studied during 2007–08. More than half (54.4%) of the respondents were young followed by middle aged (29.6%) and old (16.0%), showing, thereby, that most of the garlic grower were young. Most of the growers in the sample were educated. Their main contact with the scientists was during their visit to the villages (50.4%), radio was still the main source of information of them as 61.6 per cent farmers listened to radio for information. Majority of the farmers (63.2%) showed high risk taking ability, whereas, 22.4 and 14.4 per cent showed medium and low risk taking ability, respectively, and the garlic growers were highly prone to innovations which denoted that they were quite advanced farmers and could turn better if subjected to new technologies and developments.