The study was conducted at Kovilpatti block of Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu with the specific objective of studying extent of adoption of production technologies in Bt cotton by the growers. The area was selected based on the major cultivation of Bt areas and production of Bt cotton under irrigated condition. The selected respondents for this study were 90, who have adopted Bt cotton and non Bt cotton i.e 45 growers in each category by using simple random sampling method. The collected data were analyzed using percentage analysis. All the growers adopted Bt varieties and 95.55 per cent of the growers adopted appropriate time of planting. About 80.00 per cent of the growers adopted spacing. Three fourths (77.77%) of the growers adopted regular plucking intervals during harvest and 75.55 per cent of the growers adopted proper irrigation management followed by pest and diseases management (73.33%). More than fifty (66.66%) of the growers adopted preparation of fields to required tilth and formation of trenches followed by manures and fertilizers (62.22%) and number of split doses (57.77%). Out of ten technologies nine technologies were adopted more than fifty per cent by the growers due to the reasons that private firms have agreed to buy the produce from the farmers offering a minimum support prices. State Department of Agriculture has also introduced contract farming to assure remunerative prices to farmers.
