A study of psychological well-being between professional organic farmers and conventional farmers

Pages: 1237-1239
Digambar Darekar and Deepa Naik (Department of Psychology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind, Pune, Maharashtra)

The purpose of this research is to identify the difference between professional organic farmers and conventional farmers on their psychological well-being on 300 sample size from Pune District, Maharashtra, India. To measure psychological well-being of farmers Sisodia and Choudhary scale was administered. Two matched-groups design was used. The calculated t=7.98, is statistically significant at .01 level also gives statistical weight age to these findings that psychological well-being of professional organic farmers is of significantly higher magnitude as compared to conventional farmers.