IMPACT OF TRAINING ON KNOWLEDGE OF ORGANIC FARMING IN GUJARAT STATE
Journal Title: International Journal of Agriculture Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 8, Issue 47
Abstract
Organic agriculture is one of the fastest growing sectors of agricultural production. Considering the potential environmental benefits of organic production and its compatibility with integrated agricultural approaches to rural development, organic agriculture may be considered as a development vehicle for developing countries like India, in particular with this context research study was undertaken for 90 farmers in capacity building through training on organic farming practices and 90 untrained farmers of Surendranagar, Jamnagar and Rajkot district of Gujarat state, where researcher observed that a majority of the respondents had medium level of knowledge about organic farming practices. It was also found that almost all the independent variables of trained farmers except size of land holding and annual income had significantly relationship with knowledge of organic farming practices. While in case of untrained farmers all the independent variables except social participation, mass media exposure, innovativeness, market of organic produce and heard size had significantly relationship with knowledge of organic farming practices.
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ROHAN SHARMA
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