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Water is as crucial for crops and vegetation as it is for humans and animals. Micro Irrigation is the most efficient water and nutrient delivery system for growing crops. The technology transfer through training, demonstration and extension activities has been viewed as most important critical factors for increasing agriculture production. The study was conducted in Barwani district of West Nimar region Madhya Pradesh due to its having maximum number of farmers of KVK using drip irrigation. In this study, the total sample was consisted of 120 respondents for the study. KVK is playing most important role in dissemination of technology. Main advantages perceived the respondents, were water and labor saving in guiding irrigation. Out of the total 120 untrained farmers, Majority 51.67 per cent respondents had medium adoption of drip irrigation technology followed by 40.83 percent of the farmers had high adoption of drip irrigation. Education and knowledge was found very important factor and it had highly significant with adoption of drip irrigation. High cost of inputs was the major constraints reported by 78.33 per cent farmers.

Keywords: Performance Analysis, Adoption, Perception, Micro Irrigation, Drip Irrigation and Krishi Vigyan Kendra.