Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Komal Singh and Vishakha Bansal

Abstract:
The present study was planned to study the adoption of organic farming practices by farm women. The study was conducted in purposively selected Badgaon and Girwa Panchayat Samiti of Udaipur district, Rajasthan. Total 4 villages were selected on basis of random sampling technique. A sample of 30 farm women from each village were selected for the study. The total sample of study consisted of 120 farm women. For accomplishing the present investigation, interview technique was used to collect information from the rural women. The results regarding adoption of the organic farming practices by the respondents belonged to medium level category of adoption with 62.46 MPS consisting of 64.17 percent respondents. Therefore, 18.33 percent of respondents belonged to high category of adoption. Thus, 17.50 percent of the respondents belonged to a low level of adoption category with an overall MPS scale of 37.86 respectively.