© 2021 PP House Study on Adoption of Chinnor Rice Production Technology and Constraints Faced by Farmers of Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh Mohammad Imran Khan, Uttam Bisen, S. Sarvade*, Kamleshwar Gautam, Sharad Bisen, S. K. Rai and Atul Shrivastava College of Agriculture, Balaghat, Murjhad Farm, Waraseoni, Madhya Pradesh (481 331), India 1. Introducton Balaghat is the tribal district of Madhya Pradesh, situated in Chhatsgarh plain Agro-climatc Zone (ACZ), which is not remain untouched by the vagaries of climate change (Nema et al., 2016). The farmers of Balaghat district are resource poor and form vulnerable class of people, which are prone to threats of livelihood insecurity (Shirisha, 2019). The cropping system of Balaghat district is Rice–Fallow–Fallow/ Rice–Rice–Fallow. It has also played a major role in pushing the farmers towards the threatening situaton, which calls for remedial situaton urgently. Balaghat is major rice growing district of the Madhya Pradesh, where rice is grown in 251.60 thousand hectares (Bhoi et al., 2021; Khan et al., 2012; Meshram and Swarnakar, 2019) with total annual producton of 336370 tones and an average yield of 1426 Kg ha -1 . Chinnor is the oldest and most popular variety of scented rice among the farmers as well as consumers of Madhya Pradesh, Chhatsgarh and adjoining district of Maharashtra (Ahuja et al., 2019). However, productvity of such scented rice (Dubraj-deshi Dubraj-bouna Vishnubhog) is generally low due to traditonal cultvaton Article History RECEIVED on 04 th April 2021 RECEIVED in revised form on 25 th August 2021 ACCEPTED in fnal form on 21 st October 2021 Adoption, chinnor, lodging, socio-personal attributes Keywords: The Study was conducted during 2019–20 to fnd out the adopton of Chinnor rice producton technology by farming communites of the Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh, India. Farmers of an area were aware about technology invented by scientsts of College of Agriculture, Balaghat. Adopton of interventons involved in given technology varied from 64–100%. Majority of the respondents respond to mixing of vermi-compost and other cakes in soil (77.72%), seed rate @ 20–25 kg ha -1 (69.40%), 2–3 tmes of ploughing (64.51%), recommended plant spacing (75.00%), organic manures for nutrient management (88.47%), mechanical method of weed control (94.96%), try biological control insect-pest (96.33%), manual harvestng as well as bagging method of storage (98.00%). Data indicates that the lodging of the crop due to height was the major constraint in their adopton and it ranks I st as 68.33% respondents reported the problem of lodging. Long duraton required for maturity of the Chinnor than other rice varietes was another limitng factor, ranked II nd with 61.67% farmers’ response, whereas less availability and high cost of pure seed of variety ranked III rd with 54.33% farmers’ response. Majority of respondents (36.33%) communicate with the scientsts of the college and other insttutons. With some improvements in qualitatve parameters of the crop, adopton by farmers and yield of the crop will increase. Abstract S. Sarvade e-mail: somanath553@gmail.com Corresponding Author Social Science Open Access Citaton: Khan et al., 2021. Study on Adoption of Chinnor Rice Production Technology and Constraints Faced by Farmers of Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh. International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management 2021, 12(5), 516-522. HTTPS:// DOI.ORG/10.23910/1.2021.2257. Copyright: © 2021 Khan et al. Tis is an open access article that permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium after the author(s) and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: Legal restrictions are imposed on the public sharing of raw data. However, authors have full right to transfer or share the data in raw form upon request subject to either meeting the conditions of the original consents and the original research study. Further, access of data needs to meet whether the user complies with the ethical and legal obligations as data controllers to allow for secondary use of the data outside of the original study. Confict of interests: Te authors have declared that no confict of interest exists. Acknowledgement: Te authors are thankful to the Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Jabalpur, College of Agriculture, Balaghat and Department of Agriculture, Balaghat for providing support throughout the study. International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management Print ISSN 0976-3988 Online ISSN 0976-4038 Journal Home: htps://pphouse.org/ijbsm.php Artcle AR2257 IJBSM 2021, 12(5):516-522 DOI: HTTPS://DOI.ORG/10.23910/1.2021.2257 Research Article October 2021 Volume 12 II Issue 5 II Oct 2021 516