tailieunhanh - Attitude of farmers towards agriculture

The present study was undertaken during 2017-2019 in Bangalore Rural District of Karnataka state to analyze the attitude of farmers towards agriculture. One hundred agricultural households in rural areas of North transect formed the sample of the study. More than three-fourth (77%) of the farmers had favourable to more favourable attitude towards agriculture. Education, employment, risk orientation, innovative proneness, life style, mass media participation and extension participation of farmers were having a positive and significant to highly significant relationship with their attitude towards agriculture. For every unit increase in the education, employment, risk orientation, innovative proneness, life style, mass media participation and extension participation of farmers there will be more favorableness of attitude towards agriculture. Fragmentation of land into unconventional shape and size (92%), lack of infrastructure in rural areas (86%) and inadequate training and extension services (86%) were the important three factors influencing the attitude of farmers towards agriculture. | 2019 8 1 2729-2734 International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 01 2019 Journal homepage http Original Research Article https Attitude of Farmers towards Agriculture . Nataraju . Lakshminarayan Preethi and . Lalitha Director of Extension University of Agricultural Sciences Hebbal Bengaluru India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Attitude Farmers Agriculture Fragmentation Land holding Article Info Accepted 17 December 2018 Available Online 10 January 2019 The present study was undertaken during 2017-2019 in Bangalore Rural District of Karnataka state to analyze the attitude of farmers towards agriculture. One hundred agricultural households in rural areas of North transect formed the sample of the study. More than three-fourth 77 of the farmers had favourable to more favourable attitude towards agriculture. Education employment risk orientation innovative proneness life style mass media participation and extension participation of farmers were having a positive and significant to highly significant relationship with their attitude towards agriculture. For every unit increase in the education employment risk orientation innovative proneness life style mass media participation and extension participation of farmers there will be more favorableness of attitude towards agriculture. Fragmentation of land into unconventional shape and size 92 lack of infrastructure in rural areas 86 and inadequate training and extension services 86 were the important three factors influencing the attitude of farmers towards agriculture. Introduction Agriculture is the mainstay of Indian economy where in a tone of grave respect refers to the farmer as the annadata -the provider of grain. This is because in India agriculture has been the life and the means of sustenance for the majority of the people. Even today more than half of the country s .