BHUPENDER SINGH*, DEVENDER SINGH DAHIYA, ARVIND MALIK, P. K. CHAHAL, RAM PARKASH, OMENDER SANGWAN AND RAJESH KATHWAL
Department of Horticulture, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India
*(e-mail: bsdalal1400@gmail.com; Mobile: 94666 47372, 79885 63789)
(Received: June 20, 2022; Accepted: July 20, 2022)
ABSTRACT
The study was carried out in two districts Sonipat and Hisar in Haryana state during 2021-22 with the
objective to understand the constraints in rose cultivation. About 124 respondents were selected for the
study and questions were asked from a well framed questionnaire. The results revealed that the farmers
were least aware about the scientists working in their region, while they knew better the extension
personnel’s and district level officials from Departments of Agriculture and Horticulture. The study revealed
that the rose cultivators knew ADO/BAO/ HDO (100%) in their respective districts followed by SDAO/
SMS/DHO/DDA (95.97%). They knew about the scientists (0.81%) in their respective KVKs/Research
stations. Most of the respondents met the extension officials like SDAO/SMS/DHO/DDA ‘often’ by
66.94% followed by ADO/BAO/HDO (55.65%) and lowest percentage of frequency was observed for scientists
(12.90%). About 42.74% rose cultivators ‘occasionally’ met with ADO/BAO/HDO. In the present study,
the pre-harvest problems faced by the respondents i. e., the rose cultivators observed were as ‘high cost
of fertilizers’ (Rank I) with the mean scores 76. The most prominent problem during post-harvest of rose
cultivation was recognised as ‘knowledge of sorting and grading of flower’ (Rank I) with average score of 80.
Key words : Rose cultivation, constraints, extension contact, rank, frequency of contacts