Impact of selected socio-economic variables on the adoption of the organic cultivation in the state of Nagaland and Manipur

In India, agriculture is important occupation of which 52.00 per cent of the people depend for their livelihood. Although agriculture dominates the primary sector however it has not reached its potential level, since most of the farmers use traditional technology, slow adoption of modern and proven technologies which impaired productivity and results in lower standard living of the framers in the region. In flip side the intensification of agriculture in recent decades made the agricultural sector unsustainable due to overexploitation of groundwater and land degradation because of non-judicious of fertilizers.