STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE, AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE OF AGRICULTURAL GRADUATES TOWARDS NATURAL FARMING IN UTTAR PRADESH
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2023-08-19
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BANDA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE & TECHNOLOGY BANDA-210001, UTTAR PRADESH(INDIA)
Abstract
Natural farming is a nature-based, eco-friendly, and chemical-free farming system,
which is nowadays becoming more popular because of the less expenses in production as
well as helps in the improvement of soil and human health. The present research was
conducted to know the Knowledge, Awareness, and Attitude of Agricultural Graduates
toward Natural Farming in Uttar Pradesh. In the present study, the descriptive research
design was used and conducted in four SAUs of Uttar Pradesh which is selected
purposively. A total of 140 respondents were selected through a random sampling method.
A semi-structured interview schedule was administered for data collection through a
personal interview method. The data were analyzed by using appropriate statistical
methods. It had been found that most of the agriculture graduates were middle-aged, of
general caste belonging to rural areas, male, their schooling was done in Hindi medium and
academic performance between 6.91 to 8.0 OCPA, majority of the respondents belonged to
joint family, their father was a marginal farmer, and their primary family occupation is
agriculture, with annual income recorded as less than Rs. 300000/-. Their parent's
education was up to graduation level. He had not taken any training related to natural
farming and their main sources of information were mobile phones, the internet, and social
media. They had a middle level of library exposure, achievement motivation and scientific
orientation. The independent variables like age, education, academic performance, medium
of schooling, family type, family size, habitation pattern, annual income, number of
trainings, sources of information, and scientific orientation were associated highly
significantly with awareness, knowledge, and attitude of agriculture graduates towards
natural farming. Findings related to the level of knowledge, awareness, and attitude
showed that most of the agriculture graduates had a medium level of awareness and
knowledge about natural farming, and their Attitude was favorable. It had been suggested
by the respondents that maintaining the farm under natural farming is a difficult task
because of the seepage of chemicals from the neighboring farm fields. Further, it can be
suggested that there is wide scope to increase the level of knowledge among agriculture
graduates by organizing a number of training and awareness programmes for them and
developing and implementing specific extension strategies for making them more aware
and experienced.
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MANI PRAKASH SHUKLA {2023}, STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE, AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE OF AGRICULTURAL GRADUATES TOWARDS NATURAL FARMING IN UTTAR PRADESH, M.Sc.(Ag.)