Vol. 11, Special Issue 4 (2022)

Author(s):
Sushila Vishnoi, Dr. GL Meena, Dr. Latika Sharma and Dr. SS Burrak

Abstract:
The paper discusses the socio-economic status of goat farmers in Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) area of Rajasthan. A total of 160 respondents were selected for present study. The demographic details of the goat rearing farmer reveals that average age of the house hold was varied from 45.92 years in small category to 84.85 years in large category. The family type revealed that 73, 34 and 28 are belongs to joint families for small, medium and large farmers respectively as against of 12, 8 and 5 are belongs to nuclear families for small, medium and large category in the study area. The educational attainment in the study area on average 69 members attained education level as against of 91 illiterate in study area. Across the categories the 28 members have attained literacy whilst 57 members are illiterate. On other hand 24 members area literate and 9 members are illiterate in case of large category farmer. In the study area on an average 43 farmers obtained training however, categories’ wise 10 members in small category and 12 members participated in large category farmers. One could observe that there are strong associations between the literacy and attending the training programme among the tribal with correlation coefficient of 0.75 for large category goat farmers. The large category farmers with family size of 8 members whereas 5 members in small category.