Socio-economic profile of goat farmers in Uttar Pradesh

Kumar, Vijay; Singh, Beena; Tiwari, Rupasi; Kumar, Sanjay; Goel, Anjana

doi:10.5958/0973-9718.2015.00068.9

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“…In case of subsidiary occupations, the maximum 58.18 percent of the mango growers belong to agriculture mango family category followed by business mango family 25.00 percent, agro based enterprises 14.55 percent and caste based occupations 2.27 percent, respectively and anyone was responses were given by mango growers as a agriculture labour and service. Similar finding were also reported by who reported that the main occupation of mango growers was mango farming, with subsidiary occupations including sugar cane and dairy farming and rendering of other services [8,9,10,11].…”

Section: Mango Growers Occupationsupporting

confidence: 87%

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A Study on Socio-Economic Status of Mango Growers in Bijnor District of Western Uttar Pradesh

Singh

Prakash

Malik

et al. 2020

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Mango is a tropical and subtropical fruit crop grown in India over an area of 2258.13 thousand hectares with production of 21822.32 metric tons. The total area under mango cultivation in Uttar Pradesh is 265.62 thousand hectares with 4551.83 metric tons production 2017-18. In Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh, mango grown 5.91 thousand hectares area with 118.09 metric tons production of mango in the same period. Mango grown in diverse agro climatic conditions faces differential biotic and abiotic stress limiting the production and productivity of mango that in influenced the economic condition of mango Growers. The purpose of the present study was to examine the socio-economic status of mango growers in Bijnor district of Western Uttar Pradesh. The result of the analysis shows that 39.09 percent of respondent fall within the age range of 46 to 60 years, general caste (53.64 percent), education level-literate (50.91 percent), family type-joint family (69.09 percent), family member-4 to 6 members (67.27), land holding size-above 5 hectare (50.91 percent), irrigation facilities-own (84.55 percent), 58.18 percent of respondents were engaged in farming activities only and 25.00 percent respondent were doing farming with business. 38.18 percent respondent got more than Rs 300000.00 annual income, 36.82 percent respondent have their own pumping set and electric motor and 53.64 respondent has not participated in any technical programme.

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Section: Mango Growers Occupationsupporting

confidence: 87%

“…These same trends were also reported by many researchers [4,5,6,7]. This was also observed as one of the main reason due to which the rate of participation of all categories person is lower in training, meeting and development activities [8,9]. Thus, it is concluded that the majority of mango growers (53.64) percent were belong to general caste.…”

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A Study on Socio-Economic Status of Mango Growers in Bijnor District of Western Uttar Pradesh

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Prakash

Malik

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“…Mean knowledge score of the goat owners from 8 packages of practices on kid health management was medium (3.6); it was 3.9 in West Bengal and 3.3 in Uttar Pradesh on eight point score. Kumar et al (2014) also reported that majority of the respondents belong to medium adopter category in their study in Uttar Pradesh. The result also showed that majority of the goat owners had medium (60%) followed by low (27.2%) and high (12.8%) level of knowledge in kid health management.…”

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Knowledge level and adoption of scientific kid health management among goat owners under field conditions

Roy

Tiwari

Bharti

et al. 2017

Indian J of Anim Sci

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The present study was taken up with the objective to assess the knowledge level and adoption of scientific kid health management practices among the goat owners under field conditions. The study showed that majority of the respondents had knowledge on cleaning of mucous from mouth and nostril just after birth, feeding of colostrums as early as possible, cutting of naval cord with sterilized blade, dipping of naval cord with antiseptic solution and providing warmth in winter months. It was revealed that the mean knowledge score of goat owners in kid health management was medium and the mean adoption index was low. It was revealed that the income in goat farming, farming experience and family education status were the main factors associated significantly with the goat owners’ knowledge on kid health management while knowledge level and social participation were the main factors associated with adoption of kid health management.

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“…A perusal of Table 3 also indicates that a large number of Group I, Group II and overall Punjab goat farmers belonged to Schedule caste, Backward caste and other backward caste. Kumar et al, 2015 also reported that most of the goat farmers belong to the backward and schedule castes in Western Uttar Pradesh.…”

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Analyzing Demographic Profile of Stall Fed vis-à-vis Extensive Rearing Goat Farmers of Punjab

Dhaliwal¹,

Kasrija²,

Singh³

et al. 2020

Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci

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Socio-economic profile of goat farmers in Uttar Pradesh

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A Study on Socio-Economic Status of Mango Growers in Bijnor District of Western Uttar Pradesh

A Study on Socio-Economic Status of Mango Growers in Bijnor District of Western Uttar Pradesh

Knowledge level and adoption of scientific kid health management among goat owners under field conditions

Analyzing Demographic Profile of Stall Fed vis-à-vis Extensive Rearing Goat Farmers of Punjab

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