Adoption of sustainable agricultural practices by women farmers

The study was executed during 2006–09 to find out the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices by 270 women farmers of Dharwad, Belgaum and Haveri districts of Karnataka state. Women farmers from Belgaum district were found to have lead in adoption of sustainable agricultural practices followed by Dharwad and Haveri districts. On an average 65 per cent of women farmers adopted more then one type of selected agricultural practices. Practices related to organic farming, integrated nutrient management, integrated pest management and water conservation were found positively and significantly related to training programmes undergone indicating the resultant significance of need based intensive training programmes. Contrary to it non-significant relationship was found wrt the practices of agro-forestry, land resources and natural farming in the study area.