Author(s):

Sowmya TM and Narasimha N

Abstract: An organic farmer behavior (OFB) framework will provide the passion to accelerate wilderness organic farming within the smallholder farmer community, which is a fundamental area in global farmland agriculture. In order to understand the behavioural change of farmers in transition towards organic farming study was conducted in Mandya and Mysore district by selecting irrigated and rainfed farmers who were in transition towards organic farming during 2019. Ninty farmers from irrigated and ninty farmers from rainfed were selected purposively for the study. The results revealed that in both the situations organic transition was moderately influenced by their age, education, land holding, farming experience and livestock possession. Whereas extension contact, extension participation and organizational participation were greatly influenced the transition farmers. Most importantly training on organic farming has a great influence on transition towards organic farming which inturn results in moderate (41.11%) to greater (33.89%) extent of behavioural change towards organic farming.

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