Extent of Adoption of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) Technology for Sustainable Rice Production in Tripura, India

Abstract

The present study was conducted on 240 number of respondents randomly selected from forty (40) number of villages under the Gomati and North district of Tripura. For finding out the extent of adoption of system of rice intensification (SRI) technology, 20 independent and one dependent variable were selected for the study. Data were collected through personal interviews during the Aman season of 2022–23. For data analysis, frequency; percentage; ranking and coefficient of correlation was carried out. It was revealed that around 60.00% of the paddy farmer fall under medium level of adoption and only 26.67% of the paddy farmers had a high level of adoption. It was evident that age, education, annual income, income from paddy cultivation, land holding, innovation proneness, training exposure, Government subsidies and market orientation are found to be positively correlated and significant with adoption of SRI practices and major constraint faced by respondents was identified as labour constraints as priority constraints faced by most farmers followed by lack of technical knowledge.