Attitude, Knowledge, Skills and Decision Making Ability of Non-School Going Late Adolescents Towards Farming

The study was carried out to investigate the behavioural components of non-school going late adolescent with reference to farming and intervention for enhancing their abilities in Sonitpur district of Assam state of India. Multistage purposive cum random sampling were followed to select 110 numbers of late adolescents both male and female of equal size and their parents numbering 110. Suitable scales and statistical techniques were used for measurement of variables and analysis of data respectively. Data were collected through the personnel interval schedule. It was found that 71.36 per cent late adolescent respondents had a favourable attitude towards scientific agricultural practices. Only 14.55 per cent and 15.45 per cent late adolescent had a high level of knowledge and skills respectively in the areas of farming they were associated with. About 87.27 per cent parents expressed that their late adolescent children could not take right decision alone, family and peer mainly influenced in their decision making. Again 12.73 per cent parents expressed that their late adolescent's children could take fruitful and meaningful decisions independently and they could even analyze market conditions with regard to farming matters. The study recommended that the orientation of youth in modern agriculture should be properly honed up to provide meaningful employment to them.