Sugarcane is one of the most important cash crops in India. Cultivation of sugarcane in India dates back to the Vedic period. The earliest mention of sugarcane cultivation is found in Indian writings of the period 1400 to 1000 B.C. Sugarcane is an important cash crop of South Gujarat having economical, political and sociological significance. Sugarcane is cultivated in 0.18mha, producing 13.3 T. of cane at approximately 75t/ha in Gujarat. The study was conducted in the South Gujarat region. South Gujarat consist of seven districts namely Surat, Navsari, Valsad, The Dangs, Tapi, Bharuch, and Narmada out of these seven districts, Navsari and Surat districts were selected randomly for present investigation. Navsari district comprises six talukas; out of these, Navsari and Gandevi talukas were selected randomly. Further, Surat district comprises ten talukas; out of these, Bardoli and Kamrej talukas were selected randomly for the present investigation. From each taluka, four villages were selected randomly for the study. A sample of 160 respondents was selected by a simple random sampling technique for the study purpose. The ex-post facto research design was used for the research study. After the analysis of the collected data, it observed that sugarcane growers had medium technological gap 61.87 percent of the recommended sugarcane cultivation technologies and independent variables like farming experience was found to have a positive and highly significant relationship with technological gap, age was found to have a positive and significant relationship with technological gap at. While education, landholding, annual income, farming experience, social participation, area under sugarcane, scientific orientation, risk orientation, and market orientation were found to have negative and highly significant relationships with technological gap and source of information, innovativeness, and extension contact, they were found to have negative and significant relationships with technological gap, and only resource availability was found to have a positive non-significant relationship with technological gap.
Chauhan et al. (Wed,) studied this question.