Year: 2026
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The study aimed to examine the profile of farmers and their attitude towards Agri-drone technology in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra. The study was conducted in Parbhani and Jalna districts during 2025–26, selecting four tahsils from each district and three villages from each tahsil, with 120 Agri-drone using farmers selected through multistage purposive sampling. Data were collected through a well-structured interview schedule and analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. Majority of the respondents (69.17%) belonged to the middle age group, 31.67 per cent were educated up to college level, 69.17 per cent had medium knowledge, 57.50 per cent belonged to medium size families, 54.17 per cent to nuclear families, 31.67 per cent had medium land holdings, 62.50 per cent had fair cropping pattern, 86.67 per cent had medium annual income, 62.50 per cent had low social participation and 95.00 per cent had not received any training on Agri-drone technology. Medium sources of information (64.17%), risk orientation (60.00%), market orientation (66.67%), economic motivation (70.00%) and innovativeness (55.00%) were observed among the majority. Majority of the farmers (58.33%) had a favourable attitude towards Agri-drone technology, followed by 22.50 per cent with less favourable and 19.17 per cent with highly favourable attitude. The farmers were positive about its time and labour saving, access to difficult areas of the field and reduction in health hazards of pesticide exposure, but were less convinced about its cost, maintenance and technical complexity, and did not regard drone use as a matter of prestige.
Institution: Marathwada Agricultural University
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7223673401