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Farm mechanization implies the use of various power sources, improved farm tools and equipment, with a view to reduce the drudgery of the human beings and draught animals, which increasing the crop production and productivity. About 65 per cent of the Indian population depends on agriculture for their livelihood. In recent years, non availability of farm laboures and fragmentation of land holdings (smaller land holdings) are forcing many farmers to mechanize their farms and over the last few years, there has been considerable progress in agriculture mechanization. Mechanization in agriculture is predominantly taking place mainly for operations where traditional practices have failed to achieve the precision in operations. Keeping this in view a study was conducted to know the adoption of farm mechanization on paddy grower in Uttarkannada, Karnataka A survey was conducted by interview method from paddy growers to elicit information regarding adoption level of farm mechanization. It was revealed that majority of the respondents (80.00%) were fully aware about the farm implements and machinery accept transplanter, drum seeder, line marker. majority (60.00%) of the respondents using hire (40.00%) of the respondents using own machineries.

Key words: Adoption, Paddy Implements, and Profile.