Farmers‟ attitude

This study explores the driving factors for farmers in sustainable paddy farming in Malaysia. The research is exploratory in nature, using interview and observation approaches. Three sustainability factors are focused in this study; namely the economic, social, and environmental dimensions. The results indicate that early exposure and knowledge, education and experience in sustainable agriculture are the driving force behind shifting attitudes towards sustainable agriculture and sustaining practices.

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The objectives were: to investigate the differences in the socio-economic characteristics of rubber farmers who operate either a rubber mono-cropping system (RMCS) or a rubberbased intercropping system (RBIS), to identify RMCS farmer's attitudes toward RBIS, to determine the decision-making factors influencing the adoption of RBIS, and to examine the different types of intercrop available.

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This study attempts to measure attitudes toward risk and analyze the influence of farmers' attitudes toward risk on the economic efficiency in hybrid maize cultivation offarm households in the Mekong Delta. Based on the research results, the author has proposed solutions to the reduction of risk aversion and the enhancement of economic efficiency in produoction, contributing to improving the income of farm households.

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A resource model of extension as suggested by Salmon (1980), puts farmers and researchers as equally important contributors. The function of the extension is to transfer and nurture this pool of knowledge within the rural system. The concept of leadership has undergone considerable change as research in this area of study progressed.

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Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) are being established so that it can help farmers in earning more returns through collective input purchase, collective marketing, processing, increasing productivity through procuring better inputs, augmenting knowledge of farmers in better management practices and ensuring quality. An attempt was made to develop a standardized scale to analyze the attitude of members towards Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) using summated rating methods suggested by Likert and Edwards. The attitude scale developed was found to be highly reliable and valid.

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The study showed that majority of the farmers (77%) have a favourable attitude towards ICTs followed by 14.25 per cent of the respondents have a highly favourable attitude and 8.75 per cent had least favourable attitudes. This means that there is a scope for higher usage of ICTs in disseminating the agriculture related information among the respondents. Similarly significant association had been found between attitude towards ICTs with age, educational qualification, organizational membership and extension contact.

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The study revealed that majority of the rubber growers are show Favorable attitude towards adoption rubber farming and the correlation analysis depicts that variables like age, education, farm mechanization, off farm income and annual income have been found significant which facilitated the appropriation of the reinvention and that fostered its adoption.

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This paper analyzes the attitude of farmers towards crop diversification in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Census of India (2011) reported that about 54.60 per cent of the population involved in agriculture and allied activities. The total food grains production in the country was 284.83 million tons during the year of 2017-18. Crop diversification is one of the best options to increase income of the farmers and also leads to food, nutritional and ecological security.

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The present study has thus been conducted to understand the attitude of the farmers towards crop insurance in the district of Coochbehar in West Bengal.

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Agricultural education is an important tool in ensuring increased agricultural productivity, sustainability, environmental and ecological security, profitability, job security and equity. Different committees (ICAR Review Committee 1979; Deans Committee 1981) recommended for strong linkage of agricultural education with actual farming situation through the programme.

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In this study, they found out favorable attitudes towards farm forestry system and suggested that planting tree will increase income, and meet household requirements for fuel wood and timber and provide them with a healthy environment to work.

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Sericulture is an agro-based, labour intensive, export oriented commercial activity. Sericulture which was considered as a subsidiary occupation in the past is now being considered as major activity and farmers are willing to take-up large-scale sericulture. To, improve mulberry area and cocoon production, The Government of Karnataka and department of sericulture started a new demand driven extension approach called Technical Service Centres (TSCs) at the grass-root level (Hobli and Taluka level).

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This study was undertaken to assess attitude and to explore the relationship between attitude and profile of the farmers towards KVK training programmes. With the help of pretested interview schedule all data collected from respondents pertains to the year 2018-19.

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The main objectives of this study include to measure the attitude of the respondents about „Gir sawaj‟ biofertilizers. And also to ascertain the relationship between attitude of respondents about „Gir sawaj’ biofertilizers with their selected characteristics.

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Attitude influences an individual's choice of action and responses to any services, incentives and challenges. The attitude of the farmers and farm women towards front line extension system of ICAR has a direct bearing on the performance of the system.

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The present study was conducted at Pandhana block of Khandwa district Madhya Pradesh. The finding of the research revealed that Integrated Pest Management practice by soybean growers. The out of total soybean growers 47.27% had low adoption level of integrated pest management practices and only 5.46% had high adoption level of integrated pest management practices.

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The study was conducted in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh to study the attitude of farmers towards organic farming. In Jabalpur district there are 7 blocks, out of which Jabalpur block was selected randomly and Sihora block was selected purposively for the study because of having maximum registered farmer under organic farming as compared to other block. Thus, total 120 respondents form the sample size. The results indicates that majority of the organic were having favourable attitude towards organic farming.

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An attempt was made to develop a standardized scale to analyze the attitude of farmers towards livelihood diversificationusing summated rating methods suggested by Likert and Edwards. The attitude scale developed was found to be highly reliable and valid. The final attitude scale consisted of 15 statements and this scale was administered to 30 farmers in Chikkaballapura district in Karnataka during 2017-2018 to analyse their attitude of farmers towards livelihood diversification. These farmers were personally interviewed using schedule.

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The study was found that the majority of demonstrating farmers did have the high adoption towards Rabi QPM production technology as compared to the non-demonstrating farmers. The differences in adoption of both the categories of farmers were also found to be significant.

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The objective of the present study was to ascertain the attitude of farmers towards the agricultural extension system of the State Department of Agriculture. The sample consisted of randomly selected 90 farmers from 09 villages of three subdistricts of Udaipur who were regularly in contact with the department functionaries for the last 3 years. For measurement of attitude, Thurston’s equal appearing interval technique was used to construct the scale.

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