Knowledge level of farmers of Dharwad district towards farm waste management

Abstract

Farm waste is a serious economic, environmental and social problem. There is a need to analyze different types of waste produced in production, processing and management practices for better utilization of agricultural waste materials. Farm waste management helps framers to reduce cost on fertilizers and increasing yield of crops. Farm waste conversion reduces waste flow into air, water and reduces greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. An exploratory research design was used to know the knowledge level of farmers towards management of farm waste in the selected talukas of Dharwad district. From Dharwad district Dharwad and Kundgol taluka were selected. In total 120 farmers were selected through purposive random sampling technique. The data was analyzed by using suitable statistical tools. The results revealed that majority (90.00%) of the farmers in both Dharwad & Kundgol taluka had fully aware that farm waste includes crop waste, domestic waste and livestock waste followed by more than 75 per cent of the farmers were fully aware about utilizing farm waste and that will increase their crop yield. About 80 per cent of the farmers were aware that the farm waste can be used for production of different products. While very few of the farmers (37.00%) fell in low knowledge category. It could be concluded that, all the crop wastes are placed in the right time and right place for best utilization in order to convert into useful products and control of pollution by proper waste management