Constraints faced by farmers in adoption of vermiculture technology

Abstract

Vermiculture is the best method to dispose off organic waste. It is an easy to operate and environment friendly technology for handling biodegradable garbage. It is the latest aspect of biotechnology where application of earthworm is made for recycling the waste disposal problems. For minimizing the pollution effects and to get useful products from wastes, it requires no sophisticated machinery to operate vermiculture and do not produce any odour or any other type of pollution. So the present investigation was designed to explore the “Constraints faced by farmers in adoption of Vermiculture Technology”. The study was conducted in Jorhat district of Assam. A multi stage purposive cum simple random sampling design was followed for the research study. 120 numbers of respondents were selected randomly from 12 villages of the three blocks of Jorhat district. Data collection was done by using interview cum questionnaire. Findings of the study constraints faced by the farmers revealed that inadequate training facility rank I with the mean score 1.98 and followed by lack of organized market, lack of extension contact, lack of government support, lack of scientific knowledge, lack of relevant literature and attack of insect-pest and diseases with the ranking of II, III, IV, V, VI and VII respectively.