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Doctoral Thesis | Agricultural Studies | India | Volume 12 Issue 1, January 2023

Information Source Utilization by the IPM and Non-IPM Farmers for Pesticide Use

Raj Kumar ^[66] | Dr. Rajinder Peshin | Dr. P. S. Slathia | Dr. Vinod Gupta

Abstract: The main objective of this study is to analysis the information seeking behaviour of the farmers about the pesticide use. In this study, 240 IPM trained farmer families and 100 non-IPM farm families were selected by applying random sampling technique. Thus, the total sample size was 340 (170 from Jammu and 170 from Punjab). The IPM and non-IPM farmers of Jammu and Punjab mostly depended upon pesticide dealers followed by their own farming experience, and progressive / co-farmers regarding information about pesticides. Both the IPM and non-IPM farmers of Jammu depends more on the department of agriculture regarding information about pesticide than the IPM and non-IPM farmers of Punjab.

Keywords: Information, Pesticide, Farming experience and Department of Agriculture

Edition: Volume 12 Issue 1, January 2023,

Pages: 789 - 790