INTRODUCTION Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) is one of the most useful tree. It is popularly called as ‘Kalpavriksha’ which means tree of heaven or tree of paradise because of its manifold uses. It belongs to family Arecaceae (palmaceae). It is estimated that about 12 million people in India are dependent on coconut sector in areas of cultivation, processing and trading activities. With an annual production of 17,000 million nuts, coconut contribution to nation’s GDP is about 15,000 crore rupees (Raghavi et al. 2019). India along with the two other major producers, Indonesia and Philippines accounts for 75 per cent of the world production. The productivity of coconut is the highest in India at 10,616 nuts per hectare followed by Indonesia (4,530 nuts) and Philippines (4,196 nuts) (Anon, 2018). Coconut is one of the major plantation crops in India with a total cultivated area of 2088 thousand hectares with a production of 22,167 million nuts which makes India stand 3rd in the world having 19.02 percentage of the area under coconut production. There is an increasing trend in the area, production and productivity of coconut in Karnataka state. Karnataka occupies second position (2018) accounting for an area of 518 thousand ha with a production of 4,326 thousand metric tonnes and productivity of 8,351 nuts per ha. In Ramanagara district, Channapatna and Kanakapura are the leading taluks in both area and production of coconut. The area under coconut cultivation in Ramanagara was 20,052 ha with a total annual production of 1283 lakh nuts and productivity of 6401 nuts per ha (Anon., 2019). METHODOLOGY Ramanagara district was selected purposively, because of its one of the major plantation crop. It is one of the major producers of coconut in Karnataka and also coconut cultivation is being taken up in almost all the taluks of the district. Ramanagara district has four taluks, out of which Channapatna and Kanakapura taluks were selected purposively considering the highest area and production. The top six villages having the highest area under coconut cultivation in Channapatna taluk and top six villages having the highest area under coconut cultivation in Kanakapura taluk were selected from the district for the purpose of the study. From each village, ten coconut farm growers were selected. Thus, from each selected taluk, sixty farmers were selected by using simple random sampling. The total sample constituted from two taluks was 120. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION A close look at Table 1 shows that, 40.84 per cent of coconut growers possess medium level of adoption followed by low (34.16 %) and high (25.00 %) level of adoption, respectively. The probable reason may be that, lack of knowledgeaboutimproved practices, lack of motivation and conviction to use innovations and non-availability of critical inputs at right time. The possible reasons for low level Adoption of the technologies by the coconut growers may be due to incorrect knowledge of the respondent sregarding recommended good agronomic practices. The findings of the study were in agreement with the findings of Bhati (2014); Akshath (2015); Nagappa et al. (2017). Practice-wise Adoption level: A glance at Table 2 shows that, cent per cent of coconut growers have fully adopted time of planting. Practice which is not adopted by cent per cent of coconut growers were Magnesium application. Other practices which are adopted partially by coconut growers were time of application of NPK (87.50 %), recommended water requirement in basin irrigation (67.50 %), management of rugosespiralling white fly (53.34 %), number of fronds in palm while selecting motherpalm for seednut (57.50 %), recommended dose of NPK (50.84 %) and recommended spacing (45.83 %). This might be due to, all coconut farmers followed the correct time of planting due to monsoon rains which is essential for proper root growth in seedling and majority of farmers have partially adopted the above mentioned practices due to the fact that farmers were not well aware about the importance of the practices and significant number of farmers expressed intercropping is also reason for partial adoption of recommended practices like NPK application, Spacing, basin irrigation, time of application of NPK similar result reported by (Alimul Islam et al., 2021) (Priya Bhati, 2014). Majority of the coconut growers had fully adopted intercropping (82.50 %), growing of green manure crop (79.16 %), selection of matured seednut (77.50 %) from motherpalm, selection of oblong shape and medium size seed nut (76.66 %) from motherpalm, correct age of motherpalm for seed nut selection (77.50 %), recommended yield capacity of motherpalm for selection of seednut (73.34 %), recommended pit size (62.50 %), recommended varities (58.34 %) and recommended spacing (54.17 %). These practices are simple, most important and crucial operations in production. Hence, majority of the farmers adopted these practices. A significant percentage of coconut growers have not adopted management of bud rot (87.50 %), growing of cover crop with in 2m surrounding of coconut (83.34 %), management of red palm weevil (62.50 %), management of eriophid mite (58.34 %), boron application (58.34 %), zinc application (54.17 %), anaberoga management (53.33 %) and controlling of rugosespiralling white fly (42.50 %). This may be due to poor knowledge about recommended technologies, non-availability of inputs in time, risk involved in treating of palm with chemicals for controlling diseases and pest leads to non-adoption.