Socio-economic status of farmers

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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The study was conducted in Palamu district of Jharkhand to know the socioeconomic status of farmers. They were categorized in three groups i.e. small ,medium and large farmers which were differ from each other with regard to socio –economic factors and found that 54 per cent rice growers has medium level of knowledge .

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In this study, they found out favorable attitudes towards farm forestry system and suggested that planting tree will increase income, and meet household requirements for fuel wood and timber and provide them with a healthy environment to work.

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The study was conducted in Erode and Tiruchirappali districts of Tamil Nadu, find out the climate change impact on socioeconomic status of the Paddy farmers. Totally 200 Paddy farmers were selected for the study. Study revealed that majority of farmers belonged to medium socio-economic status in both Kalingarayan and Ponnaniyaru basin.

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A vigilant study of the socioeconomic aspects of livestock farmers is a prerequisite for the appropriate design and successful execution of Governments' developmental programmes. The present study was conducted to assess the socio-economic status and credibility of various extension activities among the livestock farmers. For this, primary data collected through structured interview schedule using a sample size of 150 respondents from Jalandhar district of Punjab.

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Vermicomposting venture has a potential to help farmers fetch reasonable profits with little inputs. Vermicomposting is gaining popularity among rural women folk and is empowering them in many ways. The same has gained popularity among the women folks too. A study was planned to assess the socioeconomic status of women farmers getting their livelihood from vermicompost production in the districts of Bandipora and Baramulla of Jammu and Kashmir.

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The present study describes the Socio-economic Status of Farmers in Raisen district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The study area was Badi Blocks of the Raisen district. The information was collected on the source of a personal interview to each of the farmers through a questionnaire. A total sample of 800 farmers was selected randomly from 15 different villages of Badi block during 2017.

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The present study was carried out at SainaNehwal Institute of Agricultural Technology, Training and Education, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana) during 2016-17. Response of the trainees was evaluated on the basis of gender, age, educational status, occupation and adoption of bee keeping as an entrepreneurship. Majority of respondents (96%) were male; belonged to young age group (72%), having education level up to matriculation (47%) and farming as an occupation (51%).

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Bio-control agents are an important component of integrated pest management and help to counteract insecticide resistant pests, withdrawal of chemicals and minimize the usage of pesticides. Although the adoption of Bio-control agents is strongly affected by the socioeconomic environment in which they are to be applied and by farmers’ attitudes, these factors have been poorly investigated in bio-control agent’s research and development programs.

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The present paper explores the impact of Krishibhagya Yojana on socioeconomic status of farmers. For the study, multi stage random sampling technique was employed to select the farmers from Bidar, Yadgir and Kalaburagi district of North Eastern Karnataka. Both primary and secondary data were collected for the study. The study reveals that a positive impact after implementation of KBY as compared with the before implementation of KBY.

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The study aimed to identify the social and demographic factors affecting the economic status of farm households in West Bengal. The results of multivariate approaches like Exploratory Factor Analysis revealed that household size, age group, farm size, gender, labour force participation rate, occupation and education were identified as key variables based on the highest factor loadings of each factor. The canonical correlation analysis based on these key variables yielded function 1 and function 2 with squared canonical correlations of 0.288 and 0.

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To study the knowledge of dairy animal owners in improved dairy husbandry practices a field survey in Bihar state was conducted during April-June’2016. Data were collected through personal interview from randomly selected 1550 dairy animal owners from randomly selected villages from Chhapra, Vaishali district of Bihar with the help of pretested structured schedule. Survey indicates that the 71.67 percentage of the livestock farmers belonged to middle age category range from 35-50 years, followed by 15.00 percent in young age category and 13.33% belonged to old age category.

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A semi structured questionnaire based field survey was conducted to assess the socioeconomic factors, responsible for the buffalo rearing in the 11 villages of Chaka block of Allahabad. The recent study was performed on the respondents of different age group, gender, education status, factors and other characteristics that include breeds, rearing and housing strategies of the various buffalo in these different villages of Chaka region.

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Rural residents have higher rates of age-adjusted mortality, disability, and chronic disease than their urban counterparts. Contributing negatively to the health status of rural residents are their lower socioeconomic status, higher incidence of both smoking and obesity, and lower levels of physical activity. Contributing negatively to the health status of farmers are the high risks from workplace hazards; contributing positively are farmers¿ higher socioeconomic status, lower incidence of smoking, and more active lifestyle.

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