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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2021, Volume : 9, Issue : 1
First page : (92) Last page : (98)
Article doi: : http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8533

An Impact Study on Organic Agriculture - SWOC Analysis

P. Namboothiripad^1*, J. Pushpa², K. Mahandrakumar³, J. S. Amarnath⁴ and K. Prabakaran^5
1Ph.D Scholar, ^2,3Professor,
Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology,
⁴Professor (Agrl. Economics), ⁵Assistant Professor (Statistics), Department of Agricultural Economics,
Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: ignounamboothiri@gmail.com
Received: 8.12.2020 | Revised: 12.01.2021 | Accepted: 20.01.2021 

 ABSTRACT

Ecological changes, mechanization and industrial developments result in an increasing artificial facilities and the impact of human activities leads to the demolition and loss of natural resources and its habitats. Organic agriculture is the method of food production using the naturally available resources particularly organic and by avoiding any type of artificially made chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, weedicides, etc. Also to sustaining the ecosystem and pollution less agriculture production, there is a need of organic agriculture at present days. Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) imparts training at every month on organic agriculture to the interested farmers. This study was conducted with a structured interview schedule with 200 trained farmers with the specific objective to analysis the organic agriculture farmers with the various dimensions via., strength, weakness, oppurtunities and challenges (SWOC). The study revealed that high quality products and use of agricultural wastes effectively were the strength Promoting high life style and contract farming tie-up were the foremost opportunities expressed by organic farmers with mean score of 2.70 and 2.40 respectively.

Keywords: Organic agriculture, SWOC analysis, Weighted Mean Score (WMS).

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Cite this article: Namboothiripad, P., Pushpa, J., Mahandrakumar, K., Amarnath, J. S., & Prabakaran, K. (2021). An Impact Study on Organic Agriculture - SWOC Analysis, Ind. J. Pure App. Biosci. 9(1), 92-98. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2582-2845.8533