Author(s):

Vijayachandra Reddy S, SM Mundinamani and VA Shinde

Abstract: The study aims to analyze the socio-economic features of farmers involved in organic cultivation in addition study also explores to find the land holding patterns in the northern part of Karnataka state. The study has used both primary and secondary data for fulfilling the objectives of the study with sample size of 75 sample respondents from each district, in total consisting of 225 samples. The findings reveals that, the average family size of the sample farmers was 6.15, 6.06 and 5.38 in Bagalkot, Bijapur and Gadag districts respectively. With regard to literacy rate the proportion of illiterates was found to be highest in Bagalkot district (34.66 per cent) when compared to Gadag (26.66) and Bijapur (25.33) district. Further, the study also reveals that the literacy rate in the districts such as Bijapur (72.23%) and Gadag (73.34) were found higher than the Bagalkot district literacy rate (65.34%). However, these three districts literacy rate is on par with Karnataka state literacy rate 66.60%. Therefore, there may not be any problem for the extension workers to educate the farmers regarding recent developments in agriculture and other enterprises to increase their level of income and productivity in farm. The findings on source of irrigation conveys that the major source of irrigation Bagalkot district was through wells (33.77%) followed by bore well (30.06%). Similarly, in Bijapur district the major source of irrigation was through other sources (40.12%) followed by bore well (34.14%), canals (20.74%), wells (4.67%) and tank (0.32%).

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