International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2017, Volume : 5, Issue : 5
First page : (833) Last page : (837)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.5524
Attitude of Farmers towards Farming as an Occupation
Onima V. T.1*, C. K. Timbadia2, Krunal D. Gulkari3 and R. M. Bhuva4
1&4PhD Scholar, Department of Extension Education, NAU, Navsari, Gujarat
2Senior Scientist and Head, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, NAU, Navsari, Gujarat
3Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture, AAU, Vaso, Gujarat
*Corresponding Author E-mail: onimavt@gmail.com
Received: 24.08.2017 | Revised: 29.09.2017 | Accepted: 10.10.2017
ABSTRACT
This study is conducted in south Gujarat region with 210 respondents to find out the attitude of farmers towards farming occupation as attitude is a strong indicator to predict whether they are going to remain in farming occupation or would opt out from it. The study revealed that vast majority (89.52 per cent) of the farmers had neutral attitude towards farming as an occupation, followed by 8.10 per cent of them had negative and 2.38 per cent of them were with positive attitude towards farming as an occupation, while none of them was with highly positive as well as highly negative attitude towards farming as an occupation.
Key words: Attitude, Farmers, Occupation, Farming, south Gujarat
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Cite this article: Onima, V.T., Timbadia, C.K., Gulkari, K.D., Bhuva, R.M., Attitude of farmers towards Farming as an Occupation, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.5(5): 833-837 (2017). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.5524
