Online published on 14 February, 2012.
Agriculture, the primary activity on the globe and in every society, has the most critical role to play in sustainable life for living beings. In agriculture, sustainability means development not only in quantity of output but also qualitative improvement in socioeconomic conditions. It is observed that many countries across the world provide support for modern agriculture, mainly to increase the productivity for commercial purpose without considering the environment sustainability. Development economists have adopted the term sustainability, which means development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs. Organic agriculture is one of the diversified traditional farming systems aimed at agricultural sustainability. While some of the study focused only on macro level without much empirical evidence. In this direction, the study has following two fold objectives. Firstly to study the role of Non-governmental organization in promoting organic agriculture in Karnataka. Secondly, to estimate the resource utilization in the organic agriculture. For the present study, four NGOs and two Organic Farmers have been selected randomly for detailed investigation and relevant information was collected by personal visits. The government of Karnataka was the first to frame the Organic Farming policy in India in the year of 2004. The over all analysis of the study highlights that the third sector (NGOs) has an important role to achieve the sustainable development through the organic agriculture. Sustainable Development through the effective utilization of natural resources is by organic agriculture. Organic agriculture is one of the best approach to get sustainability in the crop production.
