Relationship between Profile of the Farmers and Their Attitude towards Sustainable Agricultural Practices

The present study was conducted in Latur district from Marathwada region of Maharashtra state during the years 2018-19. Three talukas viz., Latur, Ausa and Renapur of Latur District were selected randomly and four villages from each taluka were selected randomly. From each village ten members were randomly selected constituting the sample size 120. A number of profile characteristics were selected as independent variables to find out profile of farmers from the study area. All profile characteristics, age, education, family size, annual income, social participation, extension contacts, sources of information, knowledge level were found in medium category while majority of the respondents were having marginal land holding. It was observed from that variables like age and family size had found to be non-significant relationship with attitude of farmers towards sustainable agricultural practices. Variables like education, land holding, annual income, social participation and extension contact found to be positive and significant relationship with attitude of farmers towards sustainable agricultural practices. Variables like source of information and knowledge had positive and highly significant relationship with attitude of farmers towards sustainable agricultural practices.