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A STUDY ON ADOPTION OF ORGANIC FARMING BY THE FARMERS OF ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS

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Title A STUDY ON ADOPTION OF ORGANIC FARMING BY THE FARMERS OF ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS
 
Creator PRASANTH, S
 
Contributor SREENIVASA RAO, I
 
Subject rice, alternative agriculture, productivity, markets, tillage equipment, land resources, research methods, marketing, participation, organic fertilizers
 
Description The present study entitled “A Study on adoption of organic farming by the farmers
of Andaman and Nicobar Islands” had been initiated focusing on the adoption of
organic farming in the rice farming community.
Ex-post facto research design was adopted in the present investigation. North and
Middle district of Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands was selected for the
study. The study was conducted in twelve (12) villages selected randomly from three (3)
blocks of North and Middle Andaman district, which included 10 organic rice farmers
from each of the selected village. A sample of 120 organic rice farmers were selected
for the study.
The analysis of profile characteristics of respondents indicates that majority of
them are old aged with primary school education, had small farm size, low annual
income and training undergone, medium level of farming experience, socio-political
participation, extension contact, mass media exposure, market accessibility, input
availability and risk taking ability.
Majority of the organic rice farmers had medium level of knowledge and medium
extent of adoption of organic rice practices.
With regard to the knowledge level on selected organic rice practices majority of
them had knowledge about organic rice farming concept, its benefits on soil health, field
flooding to suppress the weeds, green manuring using glyricidia leaves, seedling
treatments with bio-agents and on botanical formulations for controlling pest and
diseases. Most of the respondents had low level of knowledge on bio-fertilizers, bioagents
and pheromone traps and their quantity and time of application.
In case of extent of adoption of selected organic rice practices, the organic rice
farmers had fully adopted the practices such as deep summer ploughing, installing bird
perches, mechanical control of pest and disease, cattle grazing in field, and use of light
and fire for pest control. The respondents had partially adopted the practice of FYM
application, neem seed kernel incorporation and application of bio-agents. The
respondents had not adopted the practices such as disease management using bio-agents,
use of pheromone traps for pest control and controlling caseworm attack using kerosene
wetted rope.
With regard to the perceived attributes of organic farming by respondents, majority
of them were agreed that organic farming practices are less expensive, inputs are cheap,
economically feasible, subsidy easily available, environmentally appropriate, easily
operated, useful in qualitative terms, highly compatible, problem in marketing, easily
experimented and trialable, results not observable and the positive consequences of
organic farming. Whereas majority of the respondents were undecided on easy
availability of inputs, requirement of skilled labour, useful in quantitative terms,
practices are difficult, complex to understand, require high preparedness, problem in
collection and using inputs and low yields. Most of the respondents were not agree that
labourers are easily available for organic farming operations.
Correlation analysis between respondents and profile characteristics revealed that
the independent variables viz., annual income, training undergone, mass media
exposure, input availability, risk taking ability, farm size and extension contact were
found positively and significantly related with the level of knowledge about the organic
rice practices.
Correlation analysis between respondents and profile characteristics revealed that
independent variables viz., socio-political participation, mass media exposure, input
availability and market accessibility were found positively and significantly related with
the extent of adoption of organic rice practices, whereas the variables age and farm size
were negatively and significantly related.
A majority of the respondents perceived the problem of non availability of labour in
critical farm operations, non availability of cow dung, lack of transportation, poor
connectivity within islands, lack of knowledge on latest scientific organic management
practices, lack of organic marketing networks and lack of information on certification
process.
The suggestions offered by respondents to overcome the listed problems were
requirement of latest farm implements and machineries, mechanized livestock farming,
community compost plants, providing cargo boat services, need based practical oriented
training programmes, comprehensive regulated market and more awareness with policy
initiation for organic certification.
A strategy has been developed keeping in view of the results obtained in the study
and discussions held with the stakeholders of the study.
 
Date 2017-01-03T10:00:56Z
2017-01-03T10:00:56Z
2016
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/94047
 
Language en
 
Relation D9940;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher PROFESSOR JAYASHANKAR TELANGANA STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY. HYDERABAD