International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
PS Bhosale, RB Hile, VG Jadhav and PV Munde

abstract
The present study explores the socio-economic profile of organic paddy farmers in Western Maharashtra, compare with inorganic paddy farmers. For this purpose, data was collected for the agricultural year 2022-23 using a sample size of 72 respondent and data was analysed with help of simple tabular analysis. Result of tabular analysis revealed that, the average family size of organic paddy growers was 6.28 while in inorganic paddy growers was 4.47, organic paddy growers generally had a higher level of primary level of education 47.81 per cent while inorganic paddy growers had higher level of secondary education 52.18 per cent, 4.78 per cent of organic farmer’s families were illiterate, whereas only 6.21 per cent of inorganic farmer’s families fell into this category, the per farm average land holding was 3.10 hectares in organic paddy growers and 1.46 hectares land holding of inorganic paddy growers, organic paddy growers owned 28.32 per cent cows, while inorganic farmers owned 11.37 per cent cows, organic paddy growers had 28.67 per cent buffalos and inorganic paddy growers 6.75 per cent buffalos, organic paddy growers invest significantly more and had higher asset ownership (252993.33 rupees) as compare to inorganic paddy growers (145677.40 rupees), organic paddy grower had a cropping intensity of 156.55 per cent, higher than the 151.11 per cent of inorganic paddy growers farmers.