Rana, KiranPurohit, Himani2022-10-062022-10-062022-08https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810188637Growing Indian population is causing demographic pressure on agriculture sector in order to maintain food security. Thus, increasing crop yield to meet the rising demand for food grains is a critical issue. However, increased crop yield due to the application of pesticides and fertilizers d n a y t i v i t c u d o r p l a r u t l u c i r g a o t t a e r h t t n a c i f i n g i s a d e s o p s a h n o i t u l o v e r n e e r g e h t g n i r u d d e c u d o r t nis ustainability in the long run. Organic farming appears to be the best substitute for conventional farming, which is entirely dependent on chemicals. Uttarakhand was the first and only province in the country to implement a comprehensive organic farming policy in the year 2000 and in 2019 it became the first state in India to pass an Organic Agriculture Act. The area under organic farming is increasing but still many farmers are yet to adopt organic farming in Uttarakhand, despite several government policies and interventions. The farmers may be familiar of the advantages of going organic, but what matters most is their attitude and readiness to convert to organic farming. Hence, there is a need to understand the attitude of farmers towards organic farming. The present study was conducted in the Garhwal division of Uttarakhand. Dehradun district was selected purposively since it had maximum promotional programs by government for organic farming and Kalsi block was selected purposively. Three villages from Kalsi block were selected randomly. Descriptive research design was used for the present study. A sample of 120 respondents was selected through PPS method. Pre-tested interview schedule was used for data collection. Statistical techniques frequency, percentage, coefficient of correlation and t-test were used to analyze the data for meaningful interpretation. The findings of the study revealed that most (94.17%) of the respondents were males with maximum respondents (45.83%) belonging to young aged group. Vast majority (93.33%) had small sized landholding and were educated up to middle level of schooling (27.5%). Majority (61.66%) of the respondents belonged to medium sized family, had low annual income (70.83%), had low social participation (91.67%), had medium mass media exposure (48.33%), had low extension agency contact (57.50%), had high level of scientific orientation (45.83%) and had medium level of economic motivation (52.50%). With respect to attitude towards organic farming most of the respondents (43.33%) had neutral attitude. Variables like education, annual income, social participation, mass media ownershi p and exposure, extension agency contact, scientific orientation and economic motivation were found to have significant positive relationship with attitude towards organic farming. Age, land holding and family size were found to have non-significant negative relationship with attitude towards organic farming. Initial yield loss was the major economic constraint, inadequate availability or shortage of quality disease free seeds/planting materials was the major technological constraint, interference of middle men in the market was the major marketing constraint and erratic onset of monsoon rain was the major environmental constraint. The findings of the study will be useful to extension workers, research workers and administrators as it provides them with the adequate knowledge about the existing gap in organic farming technologies used by the farmers and will enable them to improve their approach of working with the farmers.EnglishThesis