National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Abundant ecological changes and industrial developments result in an increasing artificial facilities and the impact of human activities leads to the demolition and loss of natural resources and its habitats. Organic agriculture is the method of food production using the naturally available resources particularly organic and by avoiding any type of artificially made chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, weedicide etc. Also to sustaining the ecosystem and pollution less agriculture production, there is a need of organic agriculture at present days. Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) imparts training at every month on organic agriculture to the interested farmers. This study was conducted with a structured interview schedule with 200 trained farmers belongs to three districts of Tamilnadu namely Coimbator, Tiruppur and Krishnagiri. The study revealed that improvement of soil health followed by perception on domestic as well as commercial motive ranked first and second respectively with WMS of 4.82 and 4.67. The major constraints expressed by the organic agricultural farmers were less availability and high cost of input followed by insufficient premium price which ranked first and second respectively with the mean score of 62.40 and 60.34 respectively.
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