National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The study was undertaken to analyse the economic activities of farm households in the sub-tropics of Jammu region of Jammu & Kashmir state and whether farm households depend exclusively on agriculture for their livelihood or not. The study was conducted by employing non-experimental descriptive research design. Multi stage sampling technique was applied for selecting a total sample of 370 farmers: 270 rice-wheat cultivating farmers from Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts and 100 vegetable cultivating farmers from Jammu district. The data were collected from the respondents by using the pre-tested interview schedule by means of face-to-face/personal interview method. The results revealed that, only 22 per cent rice-wheat farmers and 13 per cent vegetable farmers (households) dependent exclusively on agriculture related activities for their livelihood. The share of off-farm economic activities was 78 and 87 per cent in rice-wheat and vegetable farm households, respectively which included: government employment, private employment, retired from employment, business/shopkeeper, and casual labourer among others. It is clear that for most of the farm households in the sub-tropics of Jammu, farming is not the sole and primary economic activity and agriculture is not providing economic security to the rice-wheat and vegetable farmers.
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