| The impact of drip irrigation technology on socio-economic condition of banana growers was studied by collecting data from 120 drip farms and 120 non-drip farms of Anand and Vadodara districts during 2017-18. It was revealed from the study that that drip banana growers were younger as compared to conventional growers due to old ones don’t want to use new technology. Drip growers were more educated as education played an important role in adoption of technology. Drip growers were less experienced, had smaller family size, had lesser labour force, had more diversified occupation and had bigger land holding size as compared to conventional growers. This can be due to that large farmers are more risk takers, had knowledge and education regarding technology and had higher investment capacity compared to other farmers. The income earners were more in drip banana growers, showed lower dependency and higher work participation rate as compared to conventional growers.
Keywords: Education, family size, income and labour force
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