Author(s): G Charan Tej, P Vijaya Lakshmi, B Savitha and A Meena

Abstract: The present study was conducted in Hyderabad, Warangal and Karimnagar cities as those cities had the highest number of terrace gardening practitioners. A total of 120 respondents were selected for the study. Ex-post-facto research design was used for the present study. It was found that among respondents majority of them fell under middle age category (50.83%), most of them were female (60.83%), had graduation and above level education (61.67%), most of them were government employees (36.66%), had medium annual income (55.83%), low level of experience (76.66%), more than half (53.33%) had support of family always, had medium size terrace garden (64.17%), majority (53.34%) grows vegetables + green leafy vegetables, had preference for leafy vegetables (65.00%), had source of information always as progressive farmers (71.66%), planting materials were primarily sourced from the Department of Horticulture (76.66%), received institutional support from government (52.50%), had undergone 1-2 trainings (38.33%), most 40.83 per cent of the respondents had spent 2-3 hours in terrace gardening, most 42.50 per cent of respondents experienced a medium level of drudgery and majority 74.16 per cent of respondents disseminating varieties information related to terrace gardening through WhatsApp.

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