1Assistant Professor, College of Community Science
2Head, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nalbari-781337
3SMS (Agronomy), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nalbari-781337
4SMS (Fisheries Science), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nalbari-781337
5SMS (Soil Science), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nalbari-781337
6SMS (Animal Science), Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Nalbari-781337
7Assistant Professor, College of Horticulture, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat-785013, Assam
*Corresponding author email id: mayuri_nogaon@yahoo.co.in, mayuriboradarshana@gmail.com
Online published on 19 February, 2019.
Farmers’ apathy towards farming and dream of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 stands in two opposite direction. The study was conducted to find out the attitude of the farmers’ towards farming and their economic motivation for increasing farm income. Nalbari district of Assam was purposively selected for the study. An attitude scale and scale on economic motivation were used for collecting data from the farmers of the district. It was found that a large majority (71.67%) of the farmers had moderately favourable attitude towards farming and 13.33% farmers had highly favourable attitude. 68.33 per cent farmers were found with moderate level of motivation and 16.67 per cent possessed high level of motivation.
Attitude, Doubling income Economic motivation, Farmer
