FACTORS AFFECTING THE ADOPTION OF ORGANIC FARMING IN FARWESTERN HILL, DARCHULA DISTRICT OF NEPAL

Prakash Bahadur Chand (), Kamal Joshi, Ronika Thapa, Ashish Lamsal and Bijay Chauhan
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Prakash Bahadur Chand: Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Gokuleshwor, Baitadi
Kamal Joshi: Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Gokuleshwor, Baitadi
Ronika Thapa: Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Gokuleshwor, Baitadi
Ashish Lamsal: Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Gokuleshwor, Baitadi
Bijay Chauhan: Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS), Gokuleshwor, Baitadi

Tropical Agroecosystems (TAEC), 2022, vol. 3, issue 1, 16-22

Abstract: Increasing use of agrochemicals, higher cost, and deteriorating ecosystem health have advocated the requirement to vary external input use agriculture towards safe and sustainable organic production. Current research focuses on the factors affecting the adoption of organic farming by selecting farmers of the Darchula District. This study adopted a sampling technique to pick 62 respondents. From the survey, it had been found that there have been mainly subsistence farmers that mean growing agricultural products for his or her own consumption. Most of them don’t have food self-sufficiency for a year The findings revealed that the bulk of the households were male headed (79.03%) and literature (76%). Most of the farmers had a mean landholding of about 0.58 ha. Most of the farmers were lacking training on organic farming. The foremost problems of the study area were a scarcity of information about organic farming and government intervention. Most of the farmers are practicing organic farming and that they don’t realize this fact. The farmers are able to adopt organic farming in next the five years if the government provides proper training and knowledge about the certification process.

Keywords: External; sampling technique; landholding; government intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.26480/taec.01.2022.16.22

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