International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Samar Thakuria, Pabitra Kumar Das, J Longkumer, Saurabh Sharma, Mary N Odyuo and Diptasikha Thakuria

abstract
Farmer Producer Company is a company formed by a group of farmers who are producers come together to form a company. The present investigation was conducted out with the objective to measure the adoption of recommended litchi production technology by the members of Agnigarh Producer Company Limited in Sonitpur district of Assam, India. Agnigarh Producer Company Limited was selected purposively, as the Farmer Producer Company dealing with commercial litchi production was operating in this district. A sample of 80 respondents was chosen from 13 selected villages in Sonitpur district using a proportionate random sampling method. The extent of adoption was measured by the procedure used by structure schedule. The findings of the study revealed that majority of the respondents (43.75%) belonged to middle aged category with higher secondary level of formal education (41.25%). Majority of respondents (41.25%) belonged to small size of operational land holdings category and (60.00%) had medium level of litchi yield index with medium level of farm mechanization (70.00%) and medium level of irrigated area under litchi cultivation (77.50%). Majority of them (80.00%) had medium level of farm wage payment related to litchi cultivation with (53.75%) of respondents had medium level of experience in litchi cultivation. Whereas (63.75%) of respondents had medium level of attitude towards modern agriculture with high level of training exposure (50.00%). Majority of the respondents (70.00%) had medium level of extent of adoption of recommended litchi production technology followed by 16.25 per cent respondents had high level of extent of adoption of recommended litchi production technology. The value of co-efficient of variation (17.82) indicated that the respondents were relatively homogenous with respect to their adoption of recommended litchi production technology.