Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2019) 8(8): 1475-1483 1475 Original Research Article https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2019.808.172 Sociological Analysis of the Farmers Adopting Plant Protection Technique in West Bengal, India Milan Pahari*, J.W. Haobijam and S.D. Mukhopadhyay Department of Agricultural Extension Education, P.S.B, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan (West Bengal), India *Corresponding author ABSTRACT Introduction The significance of agriculture to our nation is best summed up by the statement: “If Agriculture goes wrong, nothing will go right.” Agriculture will continue to play an important role in the economic development and poverty alleviation in the era of economic liberalization and globalization. The agricultural sector contributes 14% to the country‟s total GDP and it is the predominant occupation, accounting for about 52% of employment. The grain output after the Green Revolution resulted in a record 131 million tons in 1978-79. In India, 70% of people live in rural area and the majority of them are poor. This people mainly depend on agriculture. However, Due to limited resources in land, water, improved input and technologies, and microfinance resulted in continuing of poverty. Today we have faced various type of problem in the agriculture field and that is the reason why farmers are not producing good quality of crops. In this time farmers used a different type of chemical to control insect, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 08 (2019) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com The present study was conducted with the objective to study the sociological characteristics of farmers adopting plant protection technique in West Bengal. This study was conducted on 120 farmersin 12villages from 3 blocks of Paschim Medinipur district viz. Suttchara, Gogram, Mundumari and Bajpur villages from Pingla block, Chakbadalpur, Banhola, Nandapura and khunkhunya villages from Sabang block and Tutranga, Tulya Chak, Barkhabad, Baicha villages from Narayangarh block. It was aimed to analyses the sociological characteristics of the widespread practice of farmers adopting plant protection technique in West Bengal. The study was undertaken during August 2017 to December 17 and the data pertain of the year 2017. In the present study, data was generated through a sample survey of farmers by personal interview method using pretesting well-structured interview schedule. Simple random sampling method was adopted for selecting the respondents. The finding of the study reported that thee farmers engaged in plant protection techniques have the following parameters with majority of age group showing 41-55 years (55.83%), general category (45%), education for respondent high school (41.67%), education for family as high school (51.67%), family size as 3-4 members (47.5%), landholding upto 1 acre (72.50%), housing type as brick house (42.50%), production on Kharif season as less than 30 quintal (65.83%) and Boro season as less than 30 quintal (51.67%), primary occupation (100%), secondary occupation as no occupation (36.67%), annual income Rs.50001-100000 (44.17%), agricultural implementation as below 10000 index (95.83%), cosmopoliteness as 26-50 index (57.50%), media exposure 51-75 index (36.67%) and social participation as 0-25 index (63.33%). The study concluded that understanding the sociological character of the farmers will help in making the concern agents and department to closely work with the farmers and develop improve technics to improve their practice. Keywords Sociological characteristics, Plant protection technique, Pretesting, Cosmopoliteness, Parameters Accepted: 12 July 2019 Available Online: 10 August 2019 Article Info