Assessment of Socio-economic Status of Farmers and Distribution of Buffalo Population in the Mahakaushal Region of Madhya Pradesh (original) (raw)
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The Pharma Innovation Journal, 2021
The survey study of socio-economical status of the farmers and distribution of cattle population were performed at Mahakaushal region of Madhya Pradesh. Mahakaushal, a region of central India, lies in the upper or eastern reaches of the Narmada river valley in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The surveys of cattle population was based on the suitable formats and questionnaires for collecting all possible relevant information of cattle population of this region. Survey was indicated that the cattle population was distributed in entire Mahakaushal region of the Madhya Pradesh particularly in Jabalpur, Mandla, Dindori, Seoni districts and in parts of adjoining districts including Naringhpur, Balaghat, Chhindwada, Katani and Umaria. The overall socioeconomic status of farmers was poor in all the districts. The annual income of farmers of Jabalpur and Mandla districts was slightly higher than the farmers of Dindori and Seoni districts; it might be due to slightly higher irrigated lands (1-3 acres) and literate family members (4-5). The farmers in Mahakaushal region mainly depends upon the pasture feeding for their livestock. Grazing was preferred by the farmers for their animals starting from about 5-6 month of age. The mating normally occurs during grazing. It was revealed that on an average 90 percent farmers housed their animals only at night while 10 percent of farmers housed them both day and night. Most of animal houses floor and drainage was kachcha type. The survey was the first attempt to study the demographic and geographical distribution in Mahakaushal region of Madhya Pradesh.
Socioeconomic Status and Livestock Study of Bihar
International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences, 2019
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. Female participants were 40.36 percentage while 45.57 percentage were male participants. The average size of family in the study was 8.74 persons with 4.75 male members and 4.0 female members. 65.4% of the respondents' family was formally educated followed 34.6% of the respondents' family were not formally educated. In the present study it was observed that 30.7% of the respondents had acquired education up to 10th and 19.8% of respondents had acquired education upto 12th class. 13.3% of respondents had acquired education upto graduate and post graduate level while 13% of respondents had acquired education upto 5th class. Survey data revealed that the highest respondents were from OBC 59.4% class followed by 29.8% General Caste. Percentage of schedule caste was 8.1% and percentage of schedule tribe was 2.7 %. Average size of land owned was 2.24 percentage. 71.0 percentage belong to Marginal (0.1-1 ha) land while 13.7 percentage belong to small (1.1-2 ha), 3.5 percentage belong to owners having above 2 ha land. Average number of animals owned were 1.99 while average number of cow owned were 1.75. Average number of buffaloes owned was 0.24. For distribution of cows and buffaloes by type of breed show highest proportion was of crossbreed cow 75.92 percentage followed by 20.46 percentage of Indigenous cow and 3.62 percentage of Nondescript cow. In case of buffaloes it shows 55.76 percentage of upgraded buffalo and 44.24 percentage of nondescript buffaloes. In milk market study about 38.7% of farmers sell their milk to private dairy, followed by cooperative dairy (33.0%) and open market (28.2%). Likewise the average quantity of milk sold per farmer per day to private dairy was 2.72 litres, 2.32 litres to cooperative dairy and 1.98 litres to open market. Around 62.9% of the farmers sell their milk within the village while the remaining 37.1% farmers sell milk outside the village.
The Pharma Innovation Journal, 2023
This experimental survey was conducted in five different villages located in the Sikrara block of the Jaunpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The focus of the survey was to collect data on the prevalent breeding practices in the region. Small farmers, medium farmers, and large farmers were polled for this study. The survey was done on a random basis so as to reduce error percentage and both marginal and big farmers were surveyed for the evenness of data. Survey was done on a door to door basis by providing a questionnaire to the respondents. The data of survey was the base of the analysis done to prove the hypothesis. The data collected was recorded, tabulated, charted and analyzed for significance. Middle-aged people made up the largest demographic (42.0%), followed by those who were either very young (29.33%) or very elderly (28.66%). Only 30.66% of the 150 respondents did not have any level of education, whereas 44.00% of the respondents did and 25.33& were well educated. Of the total of 150 respondents, 47.33% were farmers with a landholding of 3 to 6 hectares, 32.00% were farmers with a landholding of less than 3 hectares, and 20.66% were farmers with a landholding of 6 hectares or more. Only 18.75% of the farmers in the survey made less than Rs. 40,000 per year, while 56.25% made between Rs. 40,000 and Rs. 80,000, and 25.0% made more than Rs. 80,000. The largest proportion of respondents (53.75%) were from medium-sized families (6-9 people), followed by smaller households (up to 5.00%) and larger families (16.25%). Medium-sized herds were owned by 46.0% of respondents, followed by tiny (26.0%) and big (28.00%) herds. Animal husbandry was found to be the second most important business activity in the region after crop cultivation.
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Socio-economic status of tribal farmers of Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh India: A case study
Journal of entomology and zoology studies, 2020
The present study describes the socioeconomic status of tribal farmers of Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. In this, three villages namely Patha-Karka, Ghurat and Magarwara come under bangra block of district Jhansi were selected. The information was collected on the basis of personal interview to each of the farmer through a questionnaire. A total sample of 200 farmers was selected randomly from three studied villages during 2019-2020. The study revealed that they are very poor farmers with low literacy (approximately 10-12%), limited irrigation sources and limited knowledge about agricultural methods. Farmers were growing blackgram, groundnut and sesame in Kharif season; wheat, chickpea, field pea and mustard in Rabi season. They also have limited knowledge regarding pest and disease identification and their management. The socioeconomic status can be improved with introducing new scientific technologies or facilities of modern agricultural practices.
Study of Socio-economic Status of Farmers in Jaunpur District of Uttar Pradesh, India
IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review , 2022
The study was carried out in Kerakat and Dobhi block of Jaunpur district by conducting a personal interview with hundred and fifty farmers those were selected through proportionate random sampling technique from ten selected village panchayat on the basis of fifteen farmers from each village panchayat. The majorityof farmers were middle aged and literate including formal and informal education. Other backward caste farmers were dominantly engaged in farming. majority of nuclear family system were found in existence having less than 5 members in their families. Maximum respondents were marginal farmers. Farmers were found such who had earning of Rs. 50001 to 200000. Electric motor and pumping set were dominant farm power along with farm implements. The cycle was main conveyance with all respondents. The mobile phone and T.V. possessed by majority. The majority of farmers (46.67 per cent) were have no participate in any organization. Maximum farmers contact to gram pradhan as formal source of information. informal source of information is family members and television are major source of information in mass media. Economic motivation (78.67 per cent), scientific orientation (78.00 per cent) and risk-orientations (64.00 per cent) were observed medium levels in among farmers. Keywords: socio-economic, status, farmers, village
Socio-economic status of farmers rearing Bachaur cattle in its habitat under middle Gangetic plains
The Indian journal of animal sciences, 2014
Bachaur cattle, the only recognized cattle breed of Bihar, was studied for its role in uplifting the farmers in their breeding tract by visiting 53 villages in 5 blocks of Sitamarhi district in Bihar. The different practices of farming systems involving Bachaur cattle, socio-economic status of farmers and economics of rearing of Bachaur cattle were studied through standard questionnaire The regression of different independent variables on the total income was calculated. The study revealed that 29.7 % of farmers possessing Bachaur cattle were practicing agriculture apart from rearing cattle. Literacy rate of Bachaur cattle owners ranged from 21.39 to 57.14% for different types of farmers. Marginal, small, semi-medium and medium farmers earned 91.40, 89.90, 86.31 and 87.22%, respectively, of their income from draught power of Bachaur cattle. Rearing of Bachaur bullocks supported the income of marginal, small and semi-medium farmers to the tune of 50.12, 48.31 and 42.66%, respectively...