Adoption of Agricultural Innovations : A Study of Small and Marginal Farmers of Varanasi U.P.

The yield potential has gone substantially high but there still exists a wide gap between available and adopted innovations specially in case of poor farming population which forms the bulk namely small and marginal farmers. In this background the Government of India has been making concerted efforts to minimise the gap through its transfer technology projects.

The book provides valuable information on the situational personal and communication factors, responsible for adoption of an innovation that may be useful for scholars researchers planners administrators and extension workers engaged in agriculture and rural development.