Adoption of organic farming practices by organic farmers in north gujarat

During the last decade organic farming has gained international recognition as a viable option to conventional farming. In many parts of the country farmers practice organic farming by default or in absence of resources. The organic farming movement is spreading gradually in all most all states of the country. Indian organic sector is steadily making inroads into world organic food market. India having variety of geographical and climatic regions has great potentiality to export various agricultural commodities in world market. The present study was undertaken in three districts viz., Sabarkantha, Bansakantha and Mehsana of North Gujarat state. These districts were purposively selected for the study having the more number of organic farmers. For selection of Taluka, villages and respondents, multistage random sampling technique was employed. All the organic farmers were selected from each village. All the organic farmers were selected from 24 villages of 10 talukas, consisting a sample of 100 farmers.