Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Sanghamitra Kamble, VB Kamble and Yugandhara Patil

Abstract:
The present study was conducted in Latur district of Marathwada region of Maharashtra state during the year 2019-2020. There were ten tahsils in Latur district viz. Latur, Renapur, Ausa,Nilanga, Shirur (Anantpal), Chakur, Ahmedpur, Jalkot, Udgir, and Deoni Out of which Latur, Ausa, and Renapur tahsils were selected purposively. For the purpose of the study, four villages selected from each selected tahsils were randomly selected. Thus, total 12 villages were selected for the study. From each selected village 10 respondents were selected randomly thus, the total 120 respondents comprised for the study. For the objective of attitude of rural youth towards farming, Ex-post facto research design was adopted in this study. The data were collected with the help of pretested interview schedule. The statistical methods and tests such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation and multiple regression analysis were used. The results regarding attitude of the rural youth towards farming shows that, 73.33 per cent of rural youth had favourable attitude, followed by 14.17 per cent of rural youth had less favourable attitude, and 12.50 per cent of rural youth had highly favourable attitude towards farming.