The study conducted on mango growers of Dharwad and Belgaum district during 2008-09 revealed that aroundthirty per cent of respondents were educated up to middle school. Similarly, around one-third of respondents possessed small holding (34.17%), medium level (33.33%) and high level of experience in mango cultivation (33.33%). Majority of the respondents ( 64.16% ) were noticed in medium achievement motivation, followed by fifty per cent of the respondents belonged to medium level of risk orientation and 37.50 per cent observed in medium category of economic motivation. A high percentage of respondents expressed the constraints of labour shortage and high wages (75.00%) and lack of technical knowledge (71.00%). Around fifty per cent of respondents experienced the constraints of non-availability of credit (54.17%), high cost of pesticides (53.37%) and non-adaptability of recommended post-harvest practices (51.66%).