Comparative study of Technological gap among coconut growers of four different taluks

The research was undertaken in the Tumkur district of Karnataka during 2022–2023 adopting an ex-post-facto research design to compare the technological gap among coconut growers. Tumkur was deliberately chosen for its status as one of the state’s leading coconut-producing regions. Based on differences in productivity, four taluks namely Tiptur, Turuvekere, Chikkanayakanahalli and Sira were selected from the district’s ten taluks. A total of 120 coconut farmers with 30 respondents randomly chosen from each taluk formed the study sample. The comparison of the technological gap among coconut growers using the Kruskal-Wallis one-way ANOVA showed that there is a significant difference in the technological gap among taluks with H-value of 44.43 significant at one per cent level. Where Tiptur taluk performed better with 32.93 mean rank followed by the Turuvekere taluk with mean rank 47.92 and then followed by the Chikkanayakanahalli taluk with mean rank 74.93 then by the Sira taluk with mean rank 86.22 where it indicates that as the mean rank value is less/decreased the technological gap is also less/decreased and vice versa.