After the green revolution and the development stage of cotton production in India the acceptance of improved cotton production technology/practices was getting the prime attention for increasing their production and productivity. Cotton research schemes and several extension education programmes were introduced to offer the education and training to farmers in respect of adopting the viable and proven improved cotton production technology/practices for their practical utilization in order to increase the income. In this context study was conducted in Dhar district. Madhya Pradesh to know the technological adoption level of cotton growers and to find out the association between socio personal and economic attributes of cotton growers with level of adoption. The study was conducted in the year of 2008-09. The study revealed that in respect of overall technology adoption, maximum cotton growers 50.22% adopted high level of technology followed by 34.11% respondents who adopted medium level and 15.67% respondents adopted low level of improved cotton production technology on their farms. The high level of adoption were reported in various extent i.e. in case of irrigation management (60.00%) followed by insect control measure (58.00%), rhizobium culture (58.00%), seed treatment (55.00%), recommended dose of fertilizer (52.00%), method of sowing (47.00%), weed management (46.00%), pest control measure (41.00%) and improved variety of seed (35.00%) respectively. The Study also revealed postive nature of phenomena the relationship between socio personal and economic characteristics of cotton growers and adoption level of improved cotton production technology. The zero order correlation coefficient of characteristic of cotton growers depicted in respect of age was 0.470**, for caste 0.283**, for level of income 0.392**, for level of employment 0.468**, for social participation 0.289** and for size of family 0.431. These characteristics were found to positively significant with adoption level of cotton production technology at 0.01 level of probability respectively. On the other hand, the characteristics like size of land holding had the correlation coefficient value of 0.200*, for material possession 0.248*, for economic motivation 0.201*, for attitude towards improved practices 0.215* and for extension participation 0.247* and these values were found positively significant with adoption level of cotton production technology at 0.05 level of probability respectively.
