Family Quality Index of the Farm Families : Role of Women in Organic Farming and their Family Quality Index in Agro-Climatic Zones of Northern Karnataka

ISBN-13: 9786200651501 / Angielski

Rajeshwari Desai; P.R. Sumangala

Opis

The present study was conducted during the year 2012-13 in selected agro-climatic zones of northern Karnataka to delineate the areas of participation of farm women in organic and conventional farming. The Family Quality Index was developed to assess the impact of organic farming on farm families. The results revealed that farm women have a major role in organic farming and are involved in almost all the activities from seed to plate. The farmers' shift to organic farming had a positive impact on the Family Quality Index of farm families. This calls for farmers' sensitization and encouragement to adopt organic farming that will not only cater to food and nutritional security but also the quality life of farming families and sound management of the environment.

O autorze

Desai, Rajeshwari
Dr. Rajeshwari Desai is presently working as Junior Scientist at All Co-ordinated Research Project-Home Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad. She has 25 years of teaching, research and extension experience. She got the Best AICRP team award (2003) and the best oral presentation award for the PhD research paper in 2016.