DOI: 10.36347/sjavs.2020.v07i01.002

Pages: 5-12

The agricultural sector is facing major challenges, which can affect the entrepreneurial farming activities. One of the major challenges is the adoption of practices leading to sustainable agriculture. Therefore, it is relevant to investigate the knowledge of the main actors in agriculture: the farmers. The main purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of the farmers towards sustainable agricultural practices so that the farmers can adopt sustainable agricultural practices more effectively for producing more. So it is needed to ascertain the knowledge of the farmers. Farmers bear knowledge on sustainable agriculture which they acquired from different sources. By this study it was trying to identify that whether the knowledge is sufficient to adopt sustainable agricultural practices. This study was completed through filling up questionnaire by interviewing 90 respondents who were selected using the simple random technique. The major finding of this study was that about 85% respondents of the study area had low to medium knowledge on sustainable agricultural practices. Therefore the findings suggest that the respondents were not bearing enough knowledge to practice sustainable agriculture.