Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science 6(2): 178-185 (2021) https://doi.org/10.26832/24566632.2021.060209 This content is available online at AESA Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science Journal homepage: journals.aesacademy.org/index.php/aaes e-ISSN: 2456-6632 ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE Adoption status of improved production technology in rice cultivation in Kanchanpur, Nepal Ankit Pokhrel1* , Suman Dhakal2, Rojina Kafle1 and Aayush Pokhrel1 1Faculty of Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry University, Rampur, Chitwan - 44200, Bagmati Province, NEPAL 2Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, Agriculture and Forestry University Rampur, Chitwan - 44200, Bagmati Province, NEPAL *Corresponding author’s E-mail:
[email protected] ARTICLE HISTORY ABSTRACT Received: 13 April 2021 A study was carried out in 2020 to assess the scenario of the improved production technolo- Revised received: 20 May 2021 gies among rice growers in Kanchanpur and to identify the factors influencing the adoption of Accepted: 18 June 2021 these technologies. The simple random sampling procedure was used to collect data from 90 respondents using a semi-structured interview schedule from Belauri, Bhimdutta municipality, and Beldandi rural municipality which are under the command area of the rice super zone, Keywords Kanchanpur. The information on prevailing cultural practice, production, and productivity, Binary logit regression adoption of improved technology, problems/constraints faced by farmers in rice cultivation in Production practices the study area were collected from the farmers by interview. The data were processed, Rice cultivation cleaned, and analyzed using software MS-excel and SPSS. The simple descriptive and inferen- tial statistics like chi-square and binary logistic regression models were used to find the rela- tionship between dependent and independent variables.