Factors Influencing Hybrid Rice Adoption: A Case of Marginal and Small Farmers

The study was conducted on fifty farmers comprising 33 marginal and 17 small farmers located in five
villages of Kanke block of Ranchi, Jharkhand. The study revealed that adoption level of hybrid rice
was nearly 98 per cent on the sample farmers. However, farmers of both groups were extremely
inclined in the adoption of hybrid rice production on their field. The reasons behind hybrid seed
adoption was due to high yielding capability in hybrid rice production as compared to local varieties
and even yield exceed from adopted improved varieties. The study further reveled that area of hybrid
rice on the sample farmers was positively associated with size of operational holding and fund
available with the farmers for meeting the expenditure involved in adoption of hybrid rice on the farms.