International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
TP Bharath Kumar, MT Lakshminarayan, MN Roopa, DK Suresh, Sanketh CV and Praveen P

abstract
The present study was carried out during 2025 to analyse the perception of farmers towards farmer producer organisations. One hundred farmers from five farmer producer organizations in Mandya district of Karnataka state were interviewed using a pre-tested schedule. The results revealed that a vast majority of farmers (80.00%) had good to better perception towards farmer producer organizations, whereas 20.00 per cent of farmers had poor perception towards farmer producer organisations. Further, the results revealed that all the seven independent variables viz., Age, education, farming experience, management orientation, mass media participation, extension agency contact and extension participation together contributed 61.44 per cent of the variation in developing better perception among farmers towards farmer producer organizations.