Author(s): Pankaj Kumar, Rama Kant Singh, Sushil Kumar Singh, BD Singh, Kunal Pratap Singh and Kumari Sharda

Abstract: The environment – friendly agriculture has got to be discussed in the backdrop of the environmental burden of the chemical input-intensive agricultural production practices, followed in this country with the advent of the First Green Revolution. Agrochemicals which are produced from fossil fuel and are not renewable are diminishing in availability. It may also cost heavily on our foreign exchange in future. It is in this context that the scope and potential of organic agriculture has got to be discussed. Basically, the purposes of organic farming are for recycling wastes of plant and animal origin in order to return nutrients to the land. The KVK is designed to impart need based and skill oriented training to the practicing farmers, rural youth and extension functionaries. The study was conducted in five adopted villages of KVK with a structured interview schedule with 150 trained farmers of Katihar district where the KVK run by Bihar agricultural university, Sabour, Bhagalpur is carrying out its activities. Only 4.67 percent of the respondents had high perception in organic farming practices before participation of training and after the participation of training this figure increased up to the 28.00 percent. Constraints perceived by farmers while during adoption of organic farming practices difficult methods of preparation of organic inputs was major problem as reported by the farmers(73.33%) and was ranked first, high cost of inputs was ranked second with 69.67 percent.

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