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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 |
Tribal’s generally adopt their traditional techniques of farming which they get from their heritage and this farming community which is due to their low economic and awareness status usually adopts low cost farming practices. They treat land as a mother so, they emotionally as well as culturally attached with nature. hence, it becomes necessary to have an better recognition about their extent of perception regarding eco-friendly farming practices so present study on extent of perception of tribal paddy grower farmers towards eco-friendly farming practices of paddy crop was done during year 2015-16 at Baihar block of Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh. Farmers were selected from 10 villages of Baihar block. Total 120 respondents were selected through proportionate random sampling method. It was found that higher percentage of respondents having medium level of education, and medium level of farming experience majority of farmers belong to middle age groups with medium level of annual income and low level of information source utilization. It was concluded from the study that maximum respondents (47.50%) had medium extent of perception followed by low (35.83%) and high (16.67%) extent of perception towards eco-friendly paddy farming practices.