Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
D Rachana, D Shireesha, M Jagan Mohan Reddy and G.E. CH. Vidya Sagar

Abstract:
Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) is the only farm university in Telangana State which provides quality education, location specific research and farmer outreach programs to address the needs of the industrious farming community of the state. The university played a key role in increasing food grain production in the state by developing appropriate technologies and effective mechanism for the transfer of technology to the farmers and agricultural organisations through different extension programmes. An attempt is made to study the profile characteristic, performance of the crop varietal interventions and their relation with the profile characteristics. Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the investigation, total of 60 farmers adopting crop varietal intervention promoted by the PJTSAU institutions were selected randomly from three villages. The results indicated that most the famers perceived that performance of crop varietal interventions was medium.