Author(s):

MS Nataraju, MT Lakshminararyan, HK Pankaja, Preethi and KC Lalitha

Abstract: The present study was carried out to compare the attitude of farmers towards agriculture along the rural- urban interface of Bangalore. Six hundred farmers from North (300 farmers) and South (300 farmers) transects were selected for the study. One hundred, 120 and 80 farmers from rural, transitional and urban gradients of North transect and 100, 115 and 85 farmers from rural, transitional and urban gradients of South transects were randomly selected for the study. Thus, the total sample constituted 600 farmers along the rural- urban interface of Bangalore. A pre-tested interview schedule was used to collect the required data from the sampled farmers. The results revealed that a large number of farmers had favourable attitude towards agriculture in rural (42.50%) and transitional (40.42%) gradients, whereas more number of farmers possessed less favourable attitude towards agriculture in urban gradient (41.21%) of North and South transects. Variables such as, education, employment, annual income, innovative proneness, mass media participation and extension participation exhibited positive and significant to highly significant relationship with the attitude of farmers towards agriculture in all the gradients of North and South transects. Insufficient land, fragmentation of land into unconventional shapes and sizes, non-availability on time and expensiveness of agricultural inputs, lack of infrastructure in rural areas and lack of knowledge on improved farm technology were the five major factors affecting the attitude of farmers towards agriculture along the rural urban interface of Bangalore.

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