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A. O. Tripathi ¹, U. S. Shingane ¹, L. S. Thakare ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Economics and Statistics, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), IN
2 Department of Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), IN

Abstract

Investigation was undertaken to estimate cost and returns in organic and inorganic farming considering cotton, pigeonpea, mung in Kharif season and wheat in Rabi season. For these, total 100 samples were studied out of which 50 were organic cultivators and 50 were inorganic cultivators. The gross income was observed higher in organic farming. Input-output ratios were higher in organic farming as compared to inorganic farming. They were 1.49 against 1.27 for cotton, 1.64 against 1.53, for pigeonpea, 1.54 against 1.38 for mung and 1.49 against 1.28 for wheat at cost ‘C’. The major constraints observed were lack of awareness, high input cost, low yield, certification from government and poor market linkage.

Keywords

Organic and Inorganic Farming, Soil Degradation.

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L. S. Thakare ¹, A. N. Deshmukh ¹, A. O. Tripathi ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Extension Education, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), IN
2 Department of Agricultural Economics and Statistics, Shri Shivaji Agriculture College, Amravati (M.S.), IN

Abstract

A survey of 120 proportionally selected sample of farmers from Amravati Taluka of Amravati district of Vidarbha in Maharashtra revealed that majority of respondents were from middle age group and belonged to educated upto college and above. Then majority of farmers possessed semi medium level of land holding while the respondents had low level of social participation and medium level of extension contact and majority of respondents were found to have medium level of innovativeness and high level of cosmopoliteness and most of respondents were having medium level of knowledge and medium level of awareness about S.W.C.Ps. It was observed that out of 11 variables age, land holding and social participation were found to be non significant with adoption of S.W.C.Ps. and education, annual income, cosmopoliteness, innovativeness, socio-economic station, knowledge and awareness were found to be positively significant with adoption of S.W.C.Ps.

Keywords

Extent of Adoption, Soil and Water Conservation, Farmers Respondents.

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