Abstract

The Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) is a society of key stock holders involved in
agricultural activities for sustainable agricultural development in the district. It is focal point for
integrating research and extension activities and decentralizing day to day management of the public
agricultural technology system (ATS). Hence, the study was conducted with following specific objective
and revealed that the data provides enough evidence the impact of ATMA programme on knowledge &
adoption of adoption of organic farming practices in soybean crop. This clearly shows that as regard the
adoption, there was a significant difference between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. The present study
entitled ‘Level of knowledge about Organic Farming Practices in Soybean Crop of farmers under
Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) programme’ of Guna District (Madhya Pradesh)
covering Guna district, six purposively selected villages and 120 randomly selected respondents were
selected to know impact of
ATMA on adoption as well as its associated correlates