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A Study on Farmer’s Attitudes Towards Organic Farming

Mr. Dharmaraj J Solanki

Teaching Assistant - B.V.Patel Institute of Management, Tarsadi

Abstract
Organic farming is gaining recognition in every country of the world. It is diversify

agricultural production systems to achieve improved productivity, income, food, and

environmental safety. This study investigated the attitudes of farmer’s towards
organic farming. Convenience sampling was used to select 200 farmers from kamrej

taluka of surat district. Attitude of farmers towards organic farming was measured on
score of respondents’ responses to 17 positive and negative statements on likert scale.

Data was interested and analysis through frequency, percentage and means. The result
indicates that farmer’s having a positive attitude towards organic farming. The most

important attitude statement is organic products are healthier for the family. Also they

are getting information about organic farming from fellow farmers and companies
agents. Further involvement of government to help organic growers would also boost

the adoptability of organic farming.

Key words: organic farming, attitude.
Introduction

Organic farming is not new for India and it is being practiced from primordial time. It
is a one of the way of farming system which objective is to cultivating the land and

increasing crops in such a way, as to keep the soil active and in good health by use of
organic wastes and other biological materials along with useful microbes to release

nutrients to crops for raising sustainable production in an ecofriendly less pollution

environment.
With the increase in population our obligation would be not only to stabilize

agricultural production but also raise it supplementary in sustainable manner. The
scientists have raveled that the ‘Green Revolution’ with high input use has reached a

plateau and is now sustained with diminishing return of falling dividends. Thus, it is
necessary to maintain a natural balance at any cost for existence of human life and

property. The obvious choice for that would be more relevant in the present time,

when these agrochemicals which are manufactured from fossil fuel and are not

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