Farmer’s occupation

Farmers are the integral members of rural communities. In the present study, we determined the association between occupational physical activity (OPA) of farmers and dyslipidaemia.

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The nationwide imposition of lockdown due to Covid-19 adversely affected various agriculture allied occupations especially livestock and poultry sector. For dairy farmers reduced price of milk, lack of transportation means and lack of veterinary aids were major problems faced during the lockdown. Poultry farmers incurred massive losses due to rumours associated with chicken which caused collapse in demand for poultry products. Top ranked problems faced by poultry farmers include reduced availability of improved breeds, price and sale of egg or meat.

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Agriculture is severely affected by the irregular climate variations like drought, flood etc. and thus the farmers also have to face a phase of crisis during the period. The study was undertaken to recognize the major constraints faced by agriculture farmers in drought prone western Odisha. A total of 194 respondents engaged in agriculture farming as their primary occupation selected randomly from 3 district of western Odisha namely Balangir, Kalahandi and Nuapada by stratified random sampling.

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The present study was conducted in Rewari and Khol block of Rewari district Haryana, with the objective to know the socio-economic status of SHG members. The data on socioeconomic variables were collected from 90 respondents drawn from 30 SHGs. The study revealed that almost all the members were land less and found to belong to middle age group (35-46 years), married, practicing dairy as major occupation, small herd size and belonging to low income group.

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Farmers have an increased risk for musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) such as osteoarthritis of the hip, low back pain, and neck and upper limb complaints. The underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Workrelated exposures and inflammatory responses might be involved.

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Consumption of milk and milk products is expected to differ for different occupational groups due to differences in the habits and social customs. Average monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) of Uttar Pradesh is about rupees 899 and rupees 1574 out of which per capita expenditure on food in rural and urban areas of Uttar Pradesh is about rupees 521 and rupees 728, respectively; and percentage share of food in consumer expenditure is about 57.9 percent and 46.3 percent, respectively NSSO, GOI, 2009-10.

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The study was conducted in district Saharanpur during 2014 to investigate the socioeconomic profiles of rural rice farmers. To this end, primary data was collected through structured questionnaire using a sample of size eighty allocating to four block selected purposively, each comprising two villages selected on the basis of proportional sampling technique. Rice farmers were found associated with agriculture sector. Major occupations were teaching and daily wage earners.

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Sericulture is an agro-based, labour intensive, export oriented commercial activity. Sericulture which was considered as a subsidiary occupation in the past is now being considered as major activity and farmers are willing to take-up large-scale sericulture. To, improve mulberry area and cocoon production, The Government of Karnataka and department of sericulture started a new demand driven extension approach called Technical Service Centres (TSCs) at the grass-root level (Hobli and Taluka level).

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Recent trends suggest a large proportion of farming community especially youth in the rural villages is on their way out of agriculture. Rising disenchantment with the agriculture profession pushes them out of their traditional occupation while opportunities in other sectors of the booming economy pull them out of agriculture.

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Goat farming has huge opportunity in rural development as it act as a ready to use economic asset at time of crisis among rural farmers by providing meat, milk, hide, manure and wool. Goat is proposed as Future food animal by the scientists. Goat has potential for export of products, capital storage, house-hold income, employment and nutrition.

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In India, agriculture is important occupation of which 52.00 per cent of the people depend for their livelihood. Although agriculture dominates the primary sector however it has not reached its potential level, since most of the farmers use traditional technology, slow adoption of modern and proven technologies which impaired productivity and results in lower standard living of the framers in the region.

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Primary occupation of India is agriculture and rural areas are quite concerned with this occupation. There are various aspects on which the rural development is based on agriculture, improving standard of living, imparting education, women empowerment and many more. Information sharing of new production processes with farmers was prominent in the sixties which was the key to the success of the green revolution. Rural economies can be benefitted from ICT by focusing on social production, social consumption and social services in rural areas (Malhotra, 2001).

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The livestock survey of Jaffrabadi buffalo conducted in five districts of Saurashtra region of Gujrat state. The data collected from 1045 farmers through face to face interview from Amreli, Rajkot, Junagadh, Bhavnagar and Girsomnath districts as per farmer’s population 57, 21, 12, 6 and 4 %respectively. The 50% of total farmers were practising Agricultural farming as their main occupation, the percentage fraction of farmers involved in other activities as main occupation were 31in Dairying, 12 in working as labour and 7 in service. According to land distribution, 11% were large (above 2.

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Natural resources are being consumed at an alarming rate, and the capacity of resources and technologies to satisfy food demand for the growing population remains uncertain. Since agriculture along with its allied sector, is the largest source of livelihood in India having 70% of rural household depending on agriculture as their primary occupation of which 82 % of farmers are small and marginal (FAO, 2019), the use of non monetory inputs by the poor farmers can be quite the most feasible, eco-friendly and climate smart option to preserve the environment and safeguard the natural resources.

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The study indicated that 46.67 per cent of the farmers belonged to old age group of above 45 years and were illiterate (36.70 %). Majority (51.70 %) of them had dairying and agriculture as their primary occupation and had more than 10 years of farming experience. Majority of the farmers had medium categories of cosmopoliteness and livestock possession (85.00 % and 68.33 %) respectively. The major constraints faced by the respondents were lack of awareness about latest technologies, scarcity of grazing land and water in dairy farming and lack of veterinary extension services at field level.

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Majority of the respondents belonged to middle age group 30-50 years (65.94%), mostly were illiterate (81.88%), farming was the main occupation(61.88%), and had their herd size up to 4 animals (96.56%). Contact with inter personal communication sources was found medium among (59.19%) respondents , participation in extension activities was low found in (99.69%), and mass media support was also found low among (92.19%).

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This study was conducted in Karwi block of Chitrakoot district by conducting personal interview with 100 respondents which were selected through random sampling technique. There were 65 percent respondents found in middle age group and observed to be literate (67%), belonging to backward caste (70%), residing in nuclear families (63%). The maximum respondents (63 %) were having small farmers land holding and agriculture was observed as main occupations (88%). The 55 per cent respondents were found such who had family annual income Rs. 26001-79000.

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Sporotrichosis is chronic fungal infection and regarded as occupational disease affecting florist, farmer, gardener etc. Lymphocutaneous form of the disease is common. But here we present a case of mucocutaneous sporotrichosis of ear of a housewife. It is a very rare condition.

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A study was conducted on pratapdhan birds under backyard poultry rearing in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan. During the study two block selected in which five villages of each block selected randomly. Ten backyard poultry farmers randomly selected in each village out of 100 respondents. Pratapdhan chicks provided by Krishi Vigyan Kendra under ATMA, Bhilwara for the respondent of economic point of view.20 chicks provided each respondent. Majority of respondents belong to general caste (46 %) Rajput only.

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The present study was conducted in Gujarat. The investigation concerned with Saurashtra Region of Gujarat Animal husbandry is the main occupation and Maximum agriculture and animal husbandry practices are followed by the farm women in research area. India occupies the foremost position among the countries of world in respect of livestock. Livestock is an important segment of agriculture in India as it makes bread and butter for small and marginal farmers in country.

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