Society of Extension Education GujaratPublished: Gujarat Journal of Extension Education (P-ISSN: 2322-0678 & E-ISSN: 3048-9946)
Society of Extension Education GujaratAbstract: Natural farming is a system where the laws of nature are applied to agricultural practices. This method works along with the natural biodiversity of each farmed area, encouraging the complexity of living organisms, both plants and animals that shape each particular ecosystem to thrive along with food plants. The Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) at district level played a vital role in dissemination of natural farming practice. The Mehsana district was randomly selected for the study. The Mehsana district has 10 talukas, all the taluks were selected rendomly for the study. A list of farmers who were done natural farming obtained from ATMA Office. Five villages were selected from each talukas on the basis of highest number of Natural Farming adopter farmers. Out of these 50 villages form all selected talukas total 300 farmers were selected randomly with the use of snow ball techniques to constitute a sample of 300 farmers. The results revealed that the Knowledge about natural farming practices was found to be high to moderate. Majority of respondents had adopted low to medium level natural farming practices. In practice wise adoption of natural farming shows that cent per cent farmers had adopted Jivamrut, crop rotation, Khati chhas and Gaumutra in their farm. While majority of the farmers had adopted intercropping, neemastra in pest/ disease management. The major constraints were; low yield during conversion period, inadequate marketing facilities, required natural products are not available at reasonable price, and farmers think that chemical fertilizers are more effective than natural products. The major suggestion given by respondents were; more training are necessary for different natural farming practices, government should provide subsidy during conversion period, method demonstration are required for making different natural farming inputs and government should provide regular technical information about Natural farming.
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