Assessment of Technological Knowledge of Input Dealers About Agro Services in Junagadh District, India

Aims: (1) To assess the technological knowledge of the input dealers towards agro-services and (2) To ascertain the association between selected characteristics of the input dealers and their knowledge regarding -services

Study Design: An ex-post facto research design was used for the study.

Place and Duration of Study: Junagadh district of Gujarat state

Methodology: Junagadh district comprises nine talukas out of which five talukas viz Junagadh, Keshod, Mendarda, Vanthali, and Maliya hatina were randomly selected for the study because these talukas had enough input dealers. From each taluka, thirty input dealers were selected randomly for the study. Thus, a total of 150 input dealers were selected randomly from five talukas.

Results: More than half (51.34 percent) of input dealers had a medium level of knowledge regarding agro-services followed by (30.00 percent) and (18.66 percent) of input dealers who had high-level and low of knowledge, respectively. The characteristics of input dealers viz., risk orientation, management orientation, economic motivation, and progressivism had a positive and highly significant relationship with their knowledge regarding agro-services. The age of input dealers had a negative and significant relationship with their knowledge regarding agro-services.

Conclusion: A significant majority of input dealers were found to possess a moderate to high level of knowledge regarding agro-services.