Dr. BN Pawar, JH Sonawane and Dr. JS Kumbhar

The resource intensive ways of Indian agriculture has raised serious sustainability issues. Organic farming is one of the way found to meet the objectives of sustainable agriculture. India is the world’s second-largest producer of wheat, accounting for almost 10% of global production. The present investigation was intended to depict the picture of sustainability in Pune district and it was aimed to examine sources yield gap and sustainability of wheat production. The study was based on the primary data for the year 2020-21 collected from the randomly selected 60 wheat growers spread over six villages from purposively selected. The tabular analysis techniques of averages, percentages, ratios, were used for interpretation of data and sustainability index were used for arriving meaningful findings.
The analysis of sustainability for organic wheat production indicated that the standard yield level for organic wheat production was 24.57 quintals/ha. The sustainability indices of organic wheat cultivation vary from 79 percent to 103 percent. Among the 30 farmers, 11 farmers showed the desired yield to be significantly higher than the standard yield value thus the overall sustainability index of the organic wheat cultivation was set to be 36.6 percent.
Therefore, study suggested that the effort must be concentrate on promoting the adoption of all recommended practices by all the organic wheat growers in order to achieve the integrated and complete benefits of organic production technology and to obtain maximum profit there is need to adopt organic farming for wheat cultivation by a greater number of farmers in areas, where wheat is predominately cultivated. The efforts shall be made to disseminate and make popular by the extension machinery and line departments.

DOI: 10.22271/phyto.2020.v9.i1z.14807

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