Abstract :
The present study was conducted in 11 adopted villages from Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh during the year 2016-17. The study aims to assess the socio-economic profile of the farmers, attitude of farmers towards organic farming, assessment of training need and problems in adoption of organic farming practices. The data were collected personally from respondents by using pre-tested and well structured interview schedule and after that collected data were analyzed by using appropriate statistical tools i.e. frequency, percentage etc. The findings of the study reveals that the 52.73 per cent of the respondents are belonged to the middle age group, 47.27 per cent of the respondents were educated upto primary school level, 66.36 per cent were belonged to Scheduled tribes and having small size of family (73.64%) and had experience in agriculture between 6 to 10 years (61.82%). As regards to size of land holding, 40.91 per cent of the respondents were having small size of land holding and 42.73 per cent of the respondents having their income, in the range of Rs.10,0001 to Rs. 1,50,000. As regards to attitude towards organic farming, 59.09 per cent of the respondents expressed more favourable attitude towards organic farming. Cent per cent of the respondents reported lack of minimum support price organic produce as major constraints and 98.18 per cent of the respondents suggested that minimum support price and establishment of marketing facilities for organic produce should required minimizing the constraints.
Keyword :
Attitude, Assessment of training need, Constraints, Organic farming