Knowledge and attitude of the beneficiaries farmers towards soil health card

Abstract

The present study was undertaken in the purposively selected Aurangabad district of Marathwada region with two talukas namely Vaijapur and Aurangabad from each talukas ten villages were selected randomly and five soil health card beneficiaries were selected randomly from each of the village thus a sample size of hundred respondents was selected for the present study. The respondents were interviewed with the help of structured schedule prepared for the survey. To measure attitude the scale developed by Patel (2013) [4] was used with slight modification. It is concluded that the respondents were having middle age with higher secondary education status, medium to high land holding and medium social participation, use of information sources, annual income, scientific orientation, innovativeness and cosmopolitness. It is concluded that fifty per cent of the respondents had favorable to most favorable attitude.