Discernment of Coconut Plantation Growers About Quality and Damaged Caused by Eriophyid Mite on Coconut
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AGRES – An International e-Journal , (2015) Vol. 4, Issue 4: 380-384 ISSN 2277-9663 ___________________________________________________________________________ DISCERNMENT OF COCONUT PLANTATION GROWERS ABOUT QUALITY AND DAMAGED CAUSED BY ERIOPHYID MITE ON COCONUT *1KALSARIYA, B. N.; 2KHODIFAD, P. B.; 3GORFAD, P. S.; 4GOHIL, G. R.; 5KANANI, P. R. AND 6JADEJA, M. K. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE JUNAGADH AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY JUNAGADH-362 001, GUJARAT, INDIA *Email: [email protected] _____________________________________________________________________ 1Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, JAU, Junagadh 2Assistant Professor, Department of Extension Education, NMCA, NAU, Navsari 3Subject Matter Specialist, KVK, JAU, Jamnagar 4Assistant Extension Educationist, Office of Director of Extension Education, JAU, Junagadh 5Professor & Head, Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, JAU, Junagadh 6Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension, College of Agriculture, JAU, Junagadh ABSTRACT Discernment is the process of understanding sensation or attaching meaning based on past experience to signs. The study was conducted in the coastal areas of Saurashtra, where coconut is a major crop. Total five talukas i.e. 3 talukas of Junagadh, one taluka of Porbandar and one taluka of Bhavnagar district were selected purposively which is having the highest coconut growing area. Three villages from each taluka and 10 respondents from each village i.e. total 15 villages and 150 respondents were included in the sample. To measure the perception level of respondents about quality and damaged caused by eriophyid mite on coconut, questionnaire were prepared. The scale divided in to three major head viz. quality aspects of coconut, infestation of eriophyid at pre harvest stage and infestation of eriophyid mite at post-harvest stage. The mean score were obtained individual major head and converted into percentage and assigned the rank. The results indicated that 84.00 per cent of coconut growers had perception about infestation of eriophyid mite on coconut at post-harvest stage, which had obtained first rank followed by quality aspects of coconut (82.30 per cent) and infestation of eriophyid mite on coconut at pre harvest stage (76.66 per cent) had second and third ranked, respectively, whereas in case of overall perception, majority of the coconut growers (63.33 per cent) had medium level of perception about quality and damaged caused by eriophyid mite in coconut. KEY WORDS: Coconut, Discernment, Eriophyid Mite INTRODUCTION producing countries in the world. India The coconut palm is one of the is the third largest coconut producing most useful plants in the world. It is country having an area of about 1830.9 grown in more than 92 countries of the thousand hectares with an annual world. Indonesia and Philippines are production of about 15,730 million the first and second largest coconut nuts and productivity of 8303 nuts per www.arkgroup.co.in Page 380 AGRES – An International e-Journal , (2015) Vol. 4, Issue 4: 380-384 ISSN 2277-9663 ___________________________________________________________________________ hectare. It accounts for 58.05 per cent selected, respectively. Total 15 of the area and 90.70 per cent of the villages; 9 from Junagadh district, 3 coconut production share under major from Bhavnagar district and 3 from plantation crops in India during 2009- Porbandar district were selected 10. purposively based on the number of Gujarat state has achieved farmers who adopted coconut considerable growth rate in coconut plantation. Ten coconut plantation plantation during last five years growers from each selected village because of serious efforts made by the were selected as respondents and State Government. In Gujarat, 16,674 having minimum one acre of coconut hectares area and 250.63 million nuts plantation. Therefore, a total 150 productions with productivity of 8433 coconut plantation growers was nuts per hectare are recorded included in the sample for the present (Anonymous, 2011). Average study. productivity per tree is 40 nuts in Perception about quality and irrigated area in Gujarat, whereas damaged caused by eriophyid average productivity of India is 44 nuts mite on coconut per tree. Coconut is a typical case of To measure the perception under exploitation of a plant of high level of respondents about quality and economic potential. The plant is damaged caused by eriophyid mite on unique in the sense that it is capable of coconut, questionnaire were prepared. meeting all the basic needs of food, The scale divided in to three major fibre, fuel, timber and even animal head viz., quality aspects of coconut, feed. The study was carried out on infestation of eriophyid at pre harvest "Discernment of Coconut Plantation stage and infestation of eriophyid mite Growers about Quality and Damaged at post-harvest stage. The quality Caused by Eriophyid Mite on aspects of coconut contained 13 items, Coconut" in the coastal areas of whereas infestation of eriophyid mite Saurashtra, where coconut is a mainly at pre-harvest and post-harvest stage grown. contained 6 and 10 items, respectively. METHODOLOGY Thus, total consisted 29 items The present study was carried out concerning about quality and damaged in Junagadh, Bhavnagar and Porbandar caused by eriophyid mite on coconut. districts of Saurashtra region. A The respondents were asked to answer multistage purposive sampling correct or incorrect, right or wrong and technique was used for the selection of “Yes” or “No”, against each item. The districts, talukas, villages and perception scores of an individual respondents. The selected talukas from respondent were obtained by summing the Junagadh district were Mangrol, up the responses according to major Veraval and Una, while from the head. The mean score were obtained Bhavnagar and Porbandar districts, individual major head and converted Mahuva and Porbandar talukas were into percentage and assigned the rank. Sr. Perception Mean Score 1 Quality aspects of coconut 13 2 Infestation of eriophyid mite on coconut at pre-harvest stage 06 3 Infestation of eriophyid mite on coconut at post-harvest stage 10 Total 29 www.arkgroup.co.in Page 381 AGRES – An International e-Journal , (2015) Vol. 4, Issue 4: 380-384 ISSN 2277-9663 ___________________________________________________________________________ Overall perception about quality and perception scores of an individual damaged caused by eriophyid mite respondent were obtained by summing To measure the overall up the responses over all the 29 perception level of respondents about statements. The respondents were quality and damaged caused by classified into three categories on the eriophyid mite on coconut basis of mean and standard deviation. questionnaire were prepared. The Sr. No. Categories Range 1 Low perception = < Mean – S.D. 2 Medium perception = Mean ± S.D. 3 High perception = > Mean + S.D. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION on coconut at pre harvest stage (76.66 The study of perception is per cent) had second and third ranked, concerned with identifying the process respectively. It can be concluded that through which we interpret and perception of coconut plantation organize sensory information to growers had more in post harvest produce our conscious experience of stage. objects and object relationship. The probable reason might be Perception is the process of that coconut grower’s perceived understanding sensation or attaching quality as an important aspect for meaning based on past experience to selling of coconut in market. They took signs (Taneja, 1989). Perception is the adequate care to maintain reasonable process of receiving information about quality standards. Damaged caused by and making sense of the world around eriophyid mite which was an important us. It involves deciding which aspects of quality. It was not ignored information to notice, how to because they were not perceived categorize this information and how to market price of their produce. Similar interpret it within the framework of results were also reported by existing knowledge. Shivalingaiah et al. (2002). Perception of coconut plantation Overall perception of coconut growers about quality and damaged plantation growers about quality and caused by eriophyid mite on coconut damaged caused by eriophyid mite on Perception is the true beginning coconut of knowledge. It is the process of The data regarding the attaining awareness or understanding perception about quality and damaged of sensory information. Perception caused by eriophyid mite on coconut about quality and damaged caused by were presented in Table 2. It is evident eriophyid mite on coconut were from the data that less than one third measured. The results were given in (63.33 per cent) of coconut growers Table 1 and Figure 1. The results had medium perception level about indicated that 84.00 per cent of quality and damaged caused by coconut growers had perception about eriophyid mite in coconut, while nearly infestation of eriophyid mite on equal per cent of them had low (18.67 coconut at post harvest stage, which per cent) and high (18.00 per cent) had obtained first rank followed by level of perception about it. Therefore, quality aspects of coconut (82.30 per it can be concluded that majority of the cent) and infestation of eriophyid mite coconut growers had medium level of www.arkgroup.co.in Page 382 AGRES – An International e-Journal , (2015) Vol. 4, Issue 4: