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 |
A study was conducted with a view to assess the overall empowerment level of tribal women in Tripura. Two major tribes viz. Jamatia and DebBarma predominantly inhabiting the Gomati and Sepahijala district were purposively selected. Four villages from each of the two districts were selected and from each village a total of 25 respondents were selected to make the sample size 200. Empowerment of tribal women was measured by constructing a women’s empowerment index given by Mahmud et al., with minor modifications. The reliability of the instrument was tested by test-retest method, while content validation was applied for validity. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents in both the tribes had medium empowerment level. But in correlation analysis they exhibited a substantial departure from each other. In DebBarma tribe five variables annual income from sources other than livestock, attitude towards improved livestock farming, liking of information source, entrepreneurship behavior and social participation showed significant positive correlation with empowerment level. However in multiple regression only two variables liking of information sources and entrepreneurship behavior showed significant contributory effect on empowerment level. In Jamatia tribe as many as 8 variables viz. mass media exposure, extension contact, annual income from livestock, total annual income from all sources,, annual income from sources other than livestock, entrepreneurship behavior, liking of information sources and attitude towards improved livestock farming showed significant positive correlation with empowerment level. However in multiple regression only three variables herd size, entrepreneurship behavior and participation in livestock activities displayed a significant contributory effect on the level of overall empowerment.
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