Adoption of direct seeded rice (DSR) technology by the farmers in Kaithal, Haryana

The study was focused on socio-economic profile and adoption level of direct seeded rice (DSR) technology by the farmers. It was found that majority of the farmers (36.53%) belonged to low level of adoption followed by 34.17 per cent to medium and 30.00 per cent to high level of adoption. In nutshell 70 per cent of the farmers had low to medium level of adoption means farmers had not adopted the full package of practices recommended by the CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana. KVK scientists and extension officials of agriculture department are motivating farmers by field demonstrations, exposure visits and subsidies on inputs and training on various aspects related to DSR so that they could adopt this resource conservation technology. It has been observed that the adoption of this technology has brought the desired results and helped the farmers.