Organic Farming: Awareness and Beliefs of Farmers in Uttarakhand, India

Singh, Surabhi; George, R. A.T.

doi:10.1080/09709274.2012.11906458

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“…Many studies have reported positive/favourable attitude of farmers towards organic farming (Alzaidi et al, 2013;Mohan and Helen, 2014;Dipeolu et al, 2006, Tratnik andZutinic, 2009;Singh and George, 2012). Many farmers have been found to be positive for organic farming but were concerned about its viability (Eyinade and Akharume, 2018).…”

Section: Determinants Of Farmer's Attitude Towards Organic Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Farmer’s Attitude toward Organic Agriculture and Barriers for Converting to Organic Farming Systems: Research Insights

Janjhua¹,

Chaudhary²,

Mehta³

et al. 2019

IJEP

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Organic farming is gaining acceptance all over the world due to associated benefits of quality food, enhanced soil health, environment protection, conservation of natural resources and taking care of human health. However, concern is whether farmers will change their farming systems which they have been practicing from long and shift to organic farming. The attitude and perceptions of farmers on organic farming systems have an impact on their behavioral tendencies. Consequently, the attitude is being shaped by various factors which stand as driving and restraining forces for the desired change. In the present paper, the review of various research studies provide insight into the factors that are considered important by the farmers for adoption of organic farming, the willingness and ability of farmers to change their current farming system and the problems that are perceived by the farmers in converting to organic farming system.

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Section: Determinants Of Farmer's Attitude Towards Organic Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Farmer’s Attitude toward Organic Agriculture and Barriers for Converting to Organic Farming Systems: Research Insights

Janjhua¹,

Chaudhary²,

Mehta³

et al. 2019

IJEP

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“…The level of knowledge of farmers is influenced by age, mostly older farmers. The lack of interest of young people to become farmers has an impact on the application of technology and knowledge to protect the environment (Susilowati, 2016;Singh and George, 2017). This needs to be watched out because the one character of heavy metal is accumulative, which can cause pollution on agricultural land if used for long term (Tashakor et al, 2014).…”

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Farmer Awareness to the Dangers of Heavy Metal Cadmium (Cd) Pollution due to Over-Fertilization in Sragen Regency Central Java

Pradika

Masykuri

Supriyadi

2019

Caraka Tani J. Sustain. Agric.

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P fertilization can add Cd metal content to agricultural land because the raw material for making P fertilizer comes from phosphate rock which naturally contains Cd metal. Farmers assume that by providing fertilizers with high doses can provide maximum results. Community’s knowledge of heavy metals in the environment is still low. This study aims to examine the awareness of farmers in Sragen Regency Central Java to the potential of heavy metal pollution that occurs. This research was conducted from July to December 2017. The type of this research is quantitative descriptive research using a questionnaire with the number of respondents amounting to 10% of the number of farmers, namely 30 farmers. The results show that about 61.11% of the community doesn’t understand that the presence of heavy metals in the environment can cause many problems. About 60% of the community doesn’t understand that the inorganic fertilizers commonly used by them contain heavy metals (especially Cd metal). People unaware of heavy metal pollution due to over-fertilization is 65.01%. Although the community's knowledge and awareness of heavy metals are still low, the community awareness about environmentally friendly agriculture is high (61.33%). About 53.34% of the community doesn’t know that their behavior in using inorganic fertilizers in the long term will increase the accumulation of Cd metal in agricultural land and rice plant tissue. About 70% of the community doesn’t know that agricultural land that is used continuously to plant (without interspersed with non-paddy crops) will cause land degradation.

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“…Their ages ranged between 23-78 years, with an average of 41.64 years. According to (Singh and George, 2012) the average age of the conventional farmers in India was 43 years, which shows that the organic growers are younger than conventional. Conversely, as reported by (Bourn .74 years respectively, as against 40 and 48.6 years respectively in the same study for organic farmers, which means that, the organic farmers are older than the counterpart.…”

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Smallholder Organic Farmer and #8217;s Attitudes, Objectives and Barriers towards Production of Organic Fruits and Vegetables in India: A Multivariate Analysis

Nandi

Gowdru

Bokelmann

et al. 2015

Emir. J. Food Agric

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Organic Farming: Awareness and Beliefs of Farmers in Uttarakhand, India

Cited by 20 publications

References 1 publication

Determinants of Farmer’s Attitude toward Organic Agriculture and Barriers for Converting to Organic Farming Systems: Research Insights

Determinants of Farmer’s Attitude toward Organic Agriculture and Barriers for Converting to Organic Farming Systems: Research Insights

Farmer Awareness to the Dangers of Heavy Metal Cadmium (Cd) Pollution due to Over-Fertilization in Sragen Regency Central Java

Smallholder Organic Farmer and #8217;s Attitudes, Objectives and Barriers towards Production of Organic Fruits and Vegetables in India: A Multivariate Analysis

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