409ADOPTION OF NEW PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF TOMATO IN NAVSARI DISTRICT OF SOUTH GUJARATSouth Gujarat is well known for growing of tomato. It is the good source of income for South Gujarat poor families. Considering the importance of the crop Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari established separate research unit of vegetable under the R.H.R.S. for inventing new technologies for vegetable crops to increase production and productivity of crop and to avail maximum net return. The study was conducted in ten villages of five districts of South Gujarat. From each village, 12 tomato growers were randomly selected and thus total 120 tomato growers were form the sample size for this study. They were personally interviewed with pre structured interview schedule. The study revealed that more than half of the respondent were found in medium level of knowledge, had medium level of adoption and majority of them were found in medium level of adoption gap. Practice wise Gap in adoption, regarding sets treatment in tomato crop was found first rank. A great majority of farmers said that the price fluctuation is the major constraint for adoption of tomato cropnaren_horti@yahoo.co.inResearch5122015Tomato,Adoption,Production technologyG.R. Patel,N.K. Patel,G.D. PatelDepartment of Vegetable Science, ASPEE College of Horticulture and Forestry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari- 306 450, Gujarat, India.,Department of Vegetable Science, ASPEE College of Horticulture and Forestry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari- 306 450, Gujarat, India.,Department of Vegetable Science, ASPEE College of Horticulture and Forestry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari- 306 450, Gujarat, India.