Innovation - decision behaviour of tribal women of Udaipur district regarding vermiculture technology.

Dominance of chemical agriculture from last few decades has deteriorated the soil health and created problem of disposal of agricultural waste in rural areas. It is important to maintain environmental and agricultural sustainability without reducing productivity. Vermiculture technology has been considered as a sound and viable option to regenerate the soil health through recycling the agriculture waste. For the promotion of vermiculture technology in rural as well as tribal areas the Government of India and Government of Rajasthan launched different national and state level programmes. During recent past BAIF, a voluntary organization working in the tribal area of Panchayat Samiti Jhadol of Udaipur district, has encouraged tribal women to take up vermiculture technology, to boost up the crop production, regenerate soil health by using vermicompost and reduce the use of agrochemicals and to increase income.