Opportunities and constraints faced by farmers on organic farming

Abstract

Organic farming or organic agriculture is a system of agricultural design and management that creates an ecosystem of farm production without the usage of synthetic external input applications as chemical fertilizers, chemical pesticides and Genetically Modified Organisms. An Ex-post facto research design was employed for this present study. This research was conducted in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. A total of 180 respondents were selected into two categories as 90 organic and 90 non-organic farmers. Problem Confrontation Index (PCI) was employed to study the constraints faced by farmers towards organic farming. Majority of the organic farmers had medium level of perception towards organic farming. Constraints were categorized as physical, psychological, social, institutional, economical constraints. They are mainly facing unaware of govt. policies and these should be sort out by the suggestive measure that more number of training and awareness campaigns should be taken by the central and state department of agriculture regarding cultivation to marketing of organic products for better price. This paper deals with what are all the opportunities perceived and constraints faced by both organic and non-organic farmers, what are all the suggestive measures that will improve their farming in detail.