Farm mechanization has become inevitable for augmenting agricultural production and achieving the steady growth in agriculture in synchronization with population growth. Increasing shortage of agricultural labours also necessitates availability of agricultural machinery at right time and at an affordable cost to farmers. In this situation, custom hiring of agricultural machinery appears to be logical and most appropriate best institutional intervention pushed forward in recent years. Attitude was defined as a positive or negative feeling of the farmers towards Custom Hiring Centers. Keeping this in view, a standardized scale had been developed to measure the attitude of farmers towards Custom Hiring Center. Method of summated rating scale, by Likert (1932) was used. The process started with identifying the dimension, collection of items followed by relevancy and item analysis, checking the reliability and validity for precision and consistency of the results. Thirty-four statements were selected from 56 statements which has practical applicability in ascertaining the attitude towards Custom Hiring Center and for which ‘t’ values were worked out, whose values were highest i.e., t- values more than 1.75 were selected for final scale. The scale was containing a total of thirty-four statements, out of which twenty were positive and fourteen statements were negative.

Keyword: Custom hiring center; Farm mechanization; Attitude scale; Summated ,rating scale.