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Rice is the basic source of household income in the study villages accounting for about 46 percent of the total income. there is a shift in factor income in rice production from labour to capital with higher and productivity. This book concerns the design for promoting farmer´s adoption of the recommended package of practices so as to minimize the technological gap the findings of this research study would be helpful to farmers, students and policy makers to understand the agricultural scenario of India.

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Saurabh Sharma has completed his graduation from GBPUA&TPantnagar,(UK) in 1993.Thereafter he has completed his post graduation (1995) and Ph.D degree in Agriculture Extension (2003) from CCS University Meerut(U.P.).Author has got published 17 Research papers, 16 abstracts, 14 popular articles, 01 book chapter and also got young fellow award.

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