Vol. 11, Special Issue 1 (2022)

Author(s):
Goatm Chopra, Jhabar Mal Tetarwal, Arjun Lal Kakraliya, Rajesh Kumar Serawat and Dheeraj Kumar

Abstract:
The study was conducted in Tonk district of Rajasthan. It comprised of 8 tehsils, out of which one tehsil was selected randomly. The selected tehsil was Malpura. Further, four villages selected tehsil was identified. From each village 20 respondents were selected randomly. Thus, the entire sample consisted 80 respondents from selected four villages in one tehsil of the district. Majority (52.50 per cent) of the respondents were in the middle age group while (27.50 per cent) of respondents belonged to below 28 age categories. About 52.50 percent of the respondents were literate and around 22.5 percent were illiterate. About 45.00 per cent of the respondents had medium flock size followed by small and large flock size i.e. 25.00 and 30.00 percent respectively. Most 53.75 per cent of the respondents had medium land holding followed by large and marginal land holding. With respect to family size, 57.50 per cent of the respondents had joint small size family followed by medium and large size family.