Vol. 12, Special Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
Sentibenla Pongener and Kaushal Kumar Jha

Abstract:
In today’s world, sustainable agriculture is of utmost importance and need of the hour due to limited natural resources and globalization. The present study was conducted in three leading pineapple producing districts of Nagaland with an aim to study the attitude of the pineapple growers towards sustainable cultivation practices of pineapple based on ex-post facto research design. Thirteen villages from four RD Blocks were purposively selected with a sample size of 275 respondents based on proportionate random sampling procedure. Attitude scale based on Likert’s technique was developed for the study. Findings revealed that more than half of the respondents were aged between 35-55 years with 41.45 percent educated upto middle school, majority of them had medium level of experience in pineapple cultivation, sources of information utilized, social participation, scientific orientation and risk taking ability. About half of them had small size of land under pineapple cultivation. Majority of them showed favourable attitude towards sustainable pineapple cultivation. Variables education, experience in pineapple cultivation, sources of information utilized, size of land under pineapple cultivation, social participation, scientific orientation and risk taking ability were found positively significant with their attitude.