Vol. 11, Issue 12 (2022)

Author(s):
AK Paswan, Manoj Dhakade and MN Ansari

Abstract:
The study was carried out in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh with the specific objectives to measure the socio-economic and personal attributes of small and marginal farmers along with the constraints associated with livelihood security among the selected farmers. The findings revealed that majority of respondents (51.20%) were belonged to the in middle age group, most of the respondents (31.25%) were having primary level of education, majority of the respondents (40.00%) were belongs to the OBC category, half of the respondents (50.00%) had medium size family). The study also reported that most (42.50%) of the respondents had possessed medium of livestock holding. The majority (52.50%) respondents had membership in one organization; most (47.5%) of the respondents had medium level of experience in farming. Further study shows that majority respondents (47.50%) were doing agriculture + labourer work. Whereas most (52.50%) of the respondents had low family income, majority (41.25%) respondents had medium level of cropping system and most (36.25%) of the respondents had medium level of mass media exposure. The important constraints responsible for attaining livelihood security were low market prices for the products, repeated crop failures and high costs of agriculture inputs as reported by the farmers.