Socioeconomic Analysis of Organic and Inorganic Farmers in Chitwan District of Nepal <Article>

国際協力研究誌 20 巻 3 号 45-55 頁 2014-03-31 発行
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Socioeconomic Analysis of Organic and Inorganic Farmers in Chitwan District of Nepal <Article>
作成者
Singh Mrinila
Maharjan Keshav Lall
Maskey Bijan
収録物名
国際協力研究誌
Journal of International Development and Cooperation
20
3
開始ページ 45
終了ページ 55
抄録
Organic farming is an emerging concept in Nepal but its share to total agricultural area remains much smaller. The objective of this study is to assess socioeconomic factors to identify the underlying issues that led some farmers to adopt organic while some to practice only partial organic or inorganic farming system. The study was conducted in Chitwan district where indiscriminate use of agro-chemicals is very much existent but the concept of organic farming is also emerging especially in three village development committees (VDCs) within the district; namely Phoolbari, Shivanagar and Mangalpur and thus were selected as study areas. The survey was conducted using purposive sampling method to select 300 individual households and were interviewed through semi structured questionnaire. Other methods applied were researcher's observation and participatory methods. The collected data was analyzed using multinomial logit model. Results show that male headed households, age and education of household head, farming experience, and those with bigger farm size and having intention to increase farm income are more inclined towards inorganic farming. Farming as main occupation of household head, labor availability, livestock holding and non-farm income source encouraged farmers to shift to organic farming. Thus, these factors should be taken into consideration while introducing organic farming. More significantly membership in a group formed for the purpose of organic farming and the extent of activities such as training conducted through it has been very much successful in encouraging farmers to convert to organic or at least partial organic farming and has indirect impact on neighboring non-member farmers. Thus, formation of such groups in other areas could be the most effective tool for large scale conversion to organic farming.
著者キーワード
Organic
partial organic
inorganic
multinomial logit
marginal effect
group membership
Chitwan district
NDC分類
農業 [ 610 ]
言語
英語
資源タイプ 紀要論文
出版者
広島大学大学院国際協力研究科
発行日 2014-03-31
出版タイプ Version of Record(出版社版。早期公開を含む)
アクセス権 オープンアクセス
収録物識別子
[ISSN] 1341-0903
[NCID] AN10482914