A Study on Identification of Indigenous Technology Knowledge (ITK) and its Utilization in Contemporary Modern Agriculture at Shajapur District of Madhya Pradesh

The ITK is an explicit or “codified” knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language. On the other hand, ITK is a tacit knowledge of the local or indigenous people, which is personal, content-specific and therefore hard to formalize and communicate. Local or indigenous people acquire knowledge by actively creating and organizing their own experiences. Indigenous knowledge functions within the given socio-economic and spatial boundaries of the society and plays an active part in the culture of the population concerned, being preserved, communicated, and used by its members to serve some purpose in relation to productive activity within the society. Therefore, “A Study on Identification of Indigenous Technology Knowledge (ITK) and its Utilization in Contemporary Modern Agriculture at Shajapur District of Madhya Pradesh” with specific objective. The sample of the present study was selected by proportionate random sampling method 120 ITK users were selected randomly for this study through the KVK Shajapur, M.P. The finding regarding adoption behavior of ITK users in contemporary modern agriculture: the highest adoption observed in case of horticulture crop (mean score 2.20), followed by Sorghum (mean score 2.10), oil seed crops (mean score 2.06), soybean (mean score 1.99), maize (mean score 1.97), groundnut (mean score 1.95), wheat (mean score 1.92), weather forecasting (mean score 1.91), and pulses crops (mean score1.87).