Author(s):

DK Hadimani, Manjunath, I Moulasab and Ashok J

Abstract: The study was conducted to know the adoption of improved sericulture production technologies by farmers in Bidar district of north Karnataka during the year 2016-2017. The findings revealed that, majority of the respondents (52.00%) belonged to medium adoption category with respect to sericulture production technologies. Whereas 32 percent of respondents were belonged to low adoption category and only 16 percent of respondents were belonged to high adoption category. With respect to mulberry cultivation technologies more than half of the (58.00%) of the respondents had fully adopted the technologies like high yielding varieties and methods of late age rearing & spacing followed by intercropping (48.00%), irrigation management (37.00%) and preparation of nursery bed and management (22.00%). The variables namely education, land holding, annual income, extension participation, extension contact, scientific orientation and risk orientation were found important in influencing the adoption of mulberry sericulture production technologies by farmers.

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