Adoption behavior and constrains in adoption of organic farming practices of coffee plantation in Dindigul district of Tamil Nadu

Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the farmer’s adoption behavior on organic farming practices of coffee plantation. Coffee is one of the world’s most popular beverages. It is traditionally grown in the Western Ghats spread over Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The 80 farmers were taken from one block and eight purposively selected villages, to determine the organic farming practices of coffee plantation. The finding of the study revealed that the 50.00 percent of the respondents had medium level of adoption level followed by 11.25 percent and 38.75 percent of respondents had low and high level of adoption. The major constrains faced by the adopters are labour problem, lack of proper transport, post harvest problem followed by non availability of market, financial constrains and lack of knowledge about disease.