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Indian Journal of Pure & Applied Biosciences (IJPAB)
Year : 2017 , Volume 5, Issue 5
Page No. : 833-837
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

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