A STUDY OF ORGANIC PADDY FARMING SYSTEM IN HARYANA

RAJESH BHATIA¹*, S.K. MEHTA², P.S. SHEHRAWAT³, JITENDER BHATIA⁴, EKTA^5
1Department of Extension Education, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125001, India
²Department of Extension Education, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125001, India
³Department of Extension Education, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125001, India
⁴Department of Extension Education, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125001, India
⁵Department of Extension Education, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, 125001, India
* Corresponding Author : rajesh.bhatia68@gmail.com

Received : 11-04-2016     Accepted : 23-04-2016     Published : 28-07-2016
Volume : 8     Issue : 26       Pages : 1532 - 1535
Int J Agr Sci 8.26 (2016):1532-1535

Keywords : Herd size, Livestock and Organic paddy farming
Academic Editor : BN Kalsariya
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : None declared
Author Contribution : None declared

The present study was planned to examine the contribution of livestock in organic paddy farming and to find out the relationship between livestock size and farmers’ independent variables. A total number of 150 farmers from six villages constituted the sample size from three purposively selected districts of Haryana viz., Kaithal, Karnal and Kurukshetra based on maximum area and production of rice. The study revealed that majority of farmers (56.67%) owned medium herd size followed by small size (28.00%). while, (15.33%) farmers possessed large herd size. Age variable showed a positive and highly significant correlation with herd size while innovativeness, management orientation, economic motivation and risk preference had shown positive and significant correlation whereas education and land holding of the farmers exhibited a negative and significant relationship. It was further established that the eleven independent variables had jointly contributed to (74.58 %) variation in the adoption of organic paddy farming.