Standardized Scale to measure factors related for avoidance of agriculture as a profession

Few years ago, agriculture was preferred as the best occupational choice, business as second choice and service or job as the lowest choice by rural people as livelihood occupation. Now a days the situation is totally reversed and rural people have started preferring service or job as the best livelihood choice, business as second and farming as the lowest choice. There was no scale to measure the factor related to avoidance of agriculture as a profession. Hence, the present study was designed to develop and standardize a scale for factor related to avoid agriculture occupation. This was a part of the M. Sc. study on “Avoidance of agriculture as a profession by the farmer of North Saurashtra agro climatic zone” conducted during 2017-18.