ANNUAL INCOME AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE OF BANANA GROWERS ABOUT INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT

Annual income refers to the total annual earning of respondent through all the sources. It becomes an important factor which determines the attitude and knowledge of an individual towards agricultural practices. Keeping this in view, an attempt has been made to study annual income and its relationship with the level of knowledge of banana growers about integrated pest management. The result of study revealed that slightly more than three-fifth (66.00 percent) of the banana growers had more than 3 lakhs of annual income. It is also revealed that the correlation (r = 0.285**) between annual income and their level of knowledge of banana growers about IPM was positive and highly significant