Knowledge Level and Adoption Behaviour of Farmers towards Organic Farming Practices in Mokokchung District of Nagaland

Abstract

In this modern world, where every sector tends to adopt scientific and innovative techniques; agriculture turns out to be a distinct sector by adopting traditional organic farming practices. This implies the people’s concern towards health, environment and soil health. Thus, farmers are now organic driven and there arises a need to understand the knowledge and adoption level of farmers towards organic farming practices. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. Four villages in Longchem block of Mokokchung district of Nagaland is selected purposively. 120 organic farmers from 4 villages constitute the primary respondents of the study. Data were collected from the respondents through personal interview method with the help of pre-tested schedule. Based on the findings, it was observed that higher proportion of organic farmers had medium level of knowledge (59.20%) and medium level of adoption (74.10%) respectively. Educational level, information source, risk orientation and land holding of the organic farmers had positive and significant relationship with the knowledge and adoption level of the organic farmers. Vocational training programmes should be organized and adequate marketing infrastructure should be established for input procurement and marketing or organic produce.