Abstract:In order to better understand the relationship between farmers' perceptions and profiles regarding indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) in plant protection, the current study set out to investigate "farmers' perceptions of indigenous technical knowledge in plant protection" in the Hadgaon, Bhokar, and Kinwat tahsils of Nanded district in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra state.
As regard with all independent variables like risk orientation, innovativeness had positive and significant relationship with perception while variables like farming experience, education, land holding, annual income, social participation, extension contact, information sources of ITK had positive and highly significant relationship with perception only one variable family size had positive and non- significant relationship with farming experience.
It was discovered that the independent variables' co-efficient of determination (R2) in multiple regression was 0.6030. That indicates that the overall variation is 60.30 percent.