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

Tracing Uganda’s global primary organic pineapple value chain

“…The higher participation of the young farmers could be because the organic enterprise is relatively new and more innovative; while the less participation of older farmers could be because of its high labour requirements. A number of studies have shown that young farmers significantly adopt organic enterprises more than older farmers (Vanslembrouck et al, 2002;Gailhard and Bojnec, 2015;Nandi et al, 2015). These studies have also consistently shown innovation and profits as the main drivers of organic adoption among young people.…”

“…Organic pineapple enterprise, thus gives an opportunity to women to earn a living, in a country where a study by Peterman et al (2011) showed that most cash enterprises were managed by men. It contrasts the organic fruit and vegetable farming in India which is dominated by men (Nandi et al, 2015). The finding implies that the value from organic pineapple enterprise can potentially result into economic and social development of both men and women.…”

“…The average land size on which organic pineapples were managed was 0.57 hectares. Other studies have shown that organic farming is practiced by smallholder farmers on small plots (Setboonsarng, 2008;Kleeman, 2011;Nandi et al, 2015). Focus Group Discussions revealed that small farms are easy to manage, with regard to following organic production principles.…”

“…Further analysis showed that 45% of the farmers had grown organic pineapples for less than 5 years, while 24% in 6 -10 years, and 31% between 11-20 years. With respect to other countries, organic fruit and vegetable production is more recent in India, where the organic enterprises averagely started in 2008 (Nandi et al, 2015); while in Central Germany, organic farming was practiced since 1993 (Gailhard and Bojnec, 2015). Farmers who had more land under organic pineapples managed the enterprises for more years than their counterparts with less land.…”

An Intelligent Marketspace Mobile Application for Marketing Organic Products

“…It is worth mentioning that this research is aimed at developing a mobile application for marketing organic farm products with the functionality of automated geo-location services, preferred goods delivery services, easy access to different organic farm produce. Although a considerable amount of study can be found in the literature which identifies the attitude of dairy farmers towards organic farming [7,8], economic and social implications of organic agriculture [9], these did not take mobile and real-time, geo-location into due consideration. The contributions of this work are:…”