1P.G. Student, Department of Agricultural Extension, I.G.K.V., Raipur (C.G.)
2Programme Co-ordinators, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Rajnandgoan (C.G.)
3Ph. D.-Scholar, Department of Agricultural Extension, I.G.K.V., Raipur (C.G.)
4Ex. P.G. Student, Department of Agricultural Extension, I.G.K.V., Raipur (C.G.)
A study was conducted with specific objective to understand the different communication sources of agricultural information used by the tribal farmers for organic farming in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. It was confined in purposively selected three blocks i.e. Kanker, Narharpur, Antagarh of the district on the basis of stratified random sampling. From each block 40 tribal farmers were randomly selected hence a total 120 respondents were interviewed personally. Both questionnaires and personal interviews were performed for data collection. The study revealed that the majority (70.83%)of the respondents belonged to middle age group (30 to 45 years) were educated up to primary and middle level, belonged to more family member (3–6 members) involved in farming group, no membership with any organization, and had organic farming experience more than 2 years. Majority (72.50%) of the tribal farmers had medium contact with extension personnel, medium utilization of information sources (62.50%) and low cosmopoliteness and friends, neighbour, relatives and progressive farmers were the important sources of information.
Organic farming, communication sources, information, tribal farmers
