Figure 11 : frequency of practicing technologies on sorghum
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Rice Production Rice production technologies disseminated enjoyed wide acceptability and applicability among farmers under ATASP-1 Program as can be seen in table 28 below as all the nine technologies record well over 4.0 weighted scores from the analyses that were done. From the table, improved varieties had the highest weighted score of 4.7 indicating that there is overwhelming acceptance and applicability of this technology among rice farmers under the Program. It was observed that about 77% of the farmers claimed they regularly use this technology, about 19% claimed they often use the technology while about 2% claimed they sometimes and 2% never used the technology. On site selection and land preparation, we have a weighted score of 4.6 showing its wider acceptability and applicability. About 57% of the farmers claimed they use this technology, 34% claimed they often use it while about 4% claimed they sometimes and 2%, 2% rarely use it never used the technology. More so, field preparation equally has a weighted score of 4.2 showing its wider acceptability and applicability. From the table 28 below, about 35% claimed they regularly use it, about 49% claimed they often use it while about 16% claimed they sometimes use it; 2% claimed they rarely and 2% never used this technology. This was a clear indication of optimum level of acceptance. Another very important technology disseminated was seed preparation which recorded a weighted score of 4.2 showing its wider acceptability. From the table 28 below, 49% claimed they regularly used this technology, about 34% claimed they often used it while about 12% claimed they sometimes used it and 2% claimed they rarely and never used it respectively. Getting the seed aspect of production right is absolutely important and the acceptance of this technology is very important at setting the production in the right Yield and Technology Adoption Survey
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