Author(s):

Preeti Datir, PP Wankhade and DM Mankar

Abstract: From the study it was found that majority of the respondents had high knowledge but medium adoption level about health and nutritional practices. The correlation analysis revealed that independent variables, namely education, land holding, annual income, social and cultural participation, extension participation and sources of information had positive and significant relationship with knowledge and adoption while age had positive and significant relationship with adoption about health and nutritional practices. The findings of the present investigation indicate that majority of the respondents (85.00%) were in young age group and (89.16%) were educated upto high school and above level. The majority of respondents (48.34%) had land up to 1.01 to 2.00 ha. Over (82.50%) of respondents had annual income between 25,001/- to 50000/-. Majority of them (73.33%) had nuclear family type.

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