~ 904 ~ Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2019; 8(2): 904-908 E-ISSN: 2278-4136 P-ISSN: 2349-8234 JPP 2019; 8(2): 904-908 Received: 20-01-2019 Accepted: 25-02-2019 Manjunath Department of Agricultural Extension Education, University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India K Amaresh Kumar Department of Agricultural Extension Education, University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India D Shashikala Bai Department of Agricultural Extension Education, University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India Correspondence Manjunath Department of Agricultural Extension Education, University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India Profile analysis of mango growers of Karnataka Manjunath, K Amaresh Kumar and D Shashikala Bai Abstract The study was conducted on profile analysis of mango growers in Kolar and Ramanagar district of Karnataka state during the year 2014-2015. The socio-economic profile of mango growers revealed that majority of the respondents (60.00%) belonged to middle age group. 25.00 percent and 22.50 percent were educated up to high school and middle school, majority (61.66%) of the respondents had agriculture as main occupation, nearly one third (32.50%) of the respondents belonged to small farmers category and 36.67 percent of the respondents had medium experience in mango cultivation (13 to 18 years). Whereas, majority (57.50%) of the respondents belonged to medium extension contact (46.67%), medium innovativeness (53.33%), medium economic motivation (42.50%), medium risk orientation (63.33%) and medium management orientation (50.00%). Keywords: Mango growers, Mangifera indica Linn Introduction Mango (Mangifera indica Linn) is one of the most ancient fruits of India and deserves to be the national fruit. It is the favorite fruit of almost every Indian and has been repeatedly acclaimed as the “King of Fruits”. It occupies the same position in India as is occupied by apple in temperate and grapes in sub tropical areas. Its common name Aam means common. Mango is grown in about 87 countries but it is greatly valued in India. In India, about 1500 varieties of mangos are grown, including 1000 commercial varieties. Among these, Dashehari, Langra and Chausa are the popular varieties of the northern regions of the country, while Alphanso and Pairi are popular in Deccan Plateau and Western regions. Totapuri, Neelam and Benishan are the important varieties of South India (Ravikumar et al. 2013) [7] . India produces 2516 thousand MT of mango from an area of 18431.30 thousand hectare has the share of 34.09 percent area and 20.07 percent production of major fruits. Among the top ten mango producing countries, India ranks first with the highest share of 44.01 percent of world mango production. The leading mango producing states of India are Uttar Pradesh (4,30,0980 MT), Andra Pradesh (27,37,010 MT), Karnataka (17,55,560 MT) followed by Telangana (17,17,000 MT) (Anon., 2015a) [1] . In Karnataka the crop is grown in an area 1,80,530 hectares with the production of 17,55,560 MT (Anon., 2015a) [1] . Among the various districts of Karnataka, Kolar and Ramanagar are the largest mango growing districts with an area of 46722 and 19853 hectares, produces 3,74,140 and 2,23,570 tonnes respectively (Anon., 2015b) [2] . The success of mango industry in different mango growing regions of Karnataka is attributed to the geographical situation with amazing diversity in micro as well as macro climate. Methodology The study was conducted in Kolar and Ramanagar districts of Karnataka state during the year 2014-15. These two districts were selected purposively as these districts stood first and second in area and production of mango. Further, two tehsils i.e. Srinivaspura and Mulabaglu from Kolar district and two tehsils i.e. Ramanagar and Magadi from Ramanagar districts were selected in proportion to the highest area under mango cultivation. Thereafter, three villages having the highest area under mango cultivation were selected from each tehsil. 10 respondents were selected randomly from each village. 120 respondents were selected from the selected 12 villages by adopting simple random sampling. Ex-post facto design was employed for conducting the study. Data was collected by using a detailed interview schedule employing personal interview method. Statistical tools like percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the data.