Challenges in Organic Farming and Marketing the Organic Products in Tamilnadu
Keywords:
Organic farming, challenges, issuesAbstract
Organic farming means a sustainable agro environmental system in equilibrium. Organic farming is commonly recognized as a farming system that excludes the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and genetically modified organisms. Sample sizes of 418 respondents are determined depending upon the pilot study standard deviation values. It is revealed that there is significant association between size of the farm and challenges. Small size farms farmers are having higher association with challenges of cultivation, forming process, information that are related to farming and finally compost and manure related issues. Further, there is significant association between zone of the farm and its owners’ opinion on challenges. And also it is found that there is significant association between type of the farm and its owners’ opinion on micro challenges.
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