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Indian Journal of Economics and Development
Year : 2016, Volume : 12, Issue : 1
First page : ( 163) Last page : ( 170)
Print ISSN : 2277-5412. Online ISSN : 2322-0430.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2322-0430.2016.00019.6

An Empirical Analysis of Constraints in the Production of Organic Paddy in Haryana

Bhatia Rajesh1,*, Mehta S.K.1, Mehta V.P.2, Godara A.K.1, Monika3
1Department of Extension Education, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125004

2Department of Agricultural Economics, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125004

3Department of Sociology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125004

*Corresponding author’s email: rajesh.bhatia68@gmail.com

JEL Codes: C89, J00, L31, O13, Q16, Z00

Online published on 5 February, 2016.

Abstract
Organic agriculture is an opportunity for sustainable agricultural development but some farmers are reluctant to convert because of the constraints/problems they face in its adoption. Keeping above in view, the research was conducted in the purposively selected three districts of Haryana viz., Kaithal, Karnal and Kurukshetra, because of the maximum area as well as production of rice. The problem about human labour among technological and production constraints, inadequacy of required manures and bio-fertilizers among manures and bio-fertilizers constraints and the inclination of the farmers towards use of chemical pesticides among plant protection constraintsranked first with weighted mean score of 2.93, 2.60 and 2.59, respectively.