Year: 2020 | Month: December | Volume 7 | Issue 2
A Comparative Study on Farmers Buying Pattern towards Chemical and Bio Fertilizers
Sudhakar Dwivedi
Sabbey Sharma
Jyoti Kachroo
Ashish Kumar Isher
DOI:10.30954/2394-8159.02.2020.12
Abstract:
The study has been conducted to study the on various parameters which influences that buying behavior of farmers towards the purchase of fertilizers. The research was carried out on the basis of primary as well as secondary data. Two blocks, Ranbir Singh Pura and Satwari were selected purposively and from each block two villages were selected for the study. 25 farmers from each village were taken randomly which constituted the total sample size of 100 farmers. The research was descriptive type and convenience sampling tool was used to select the farmers. The study revealed that the highest number of the farmers i.e. 46 per cent use Urea, DAP and MOP. The highest number of the respondents i.e. 47 per cent said that they use the fertilizers to get the quantity and production enhancement. The study revealed that the majority of the respondents i.e. (78 per cent) said that they take buying decision of fertilizers by themselves and 37 per cent said that the price factor majorly influence their buying behavior towards fertilizers.
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