Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Arindam Sarkar, Arun Kumar Paswan and Sudhanand Prasad Lal

Abstract:
The study was carried out with 80 rural youth in 4 villages of Coochbehar district of West Bengal. The findings indicated that majority of respondents (42.5%) had low age, more than one-fourth of the respondents (25.75%) had post-graduation and above level of education, majority of rural youths were unmarried, 83.75%, and had nuclear family, most of the respondents (61.25%) had medium income, 71.25% and possessed marginal land holding, majority of the rural youth family (51.25% ) were solely dependent on agricultural, more than one-third of respondents (43.75%) had low farming experience and majority of respondents have medium level of economic motivation, scientific orientation and innovativeness. The study further revealed that large majority (70.00%) of rural youths had low level of extension participation. The result of the study disclosed that majority of rural youths were engaged in dairy practice while, less than one fourth of the respondents were involved in goat farming and poultry farming and least were engaged in vermicompost and mushroom production enterprises. The correlation analysis of dairy practice (n=70) showed that variables such as age, farming experience, scientific orientation and innovativeness were positively correlated while; education was negatively correlated with rural youths’ involvement with 99 % level of significance. Thus, the research concludes that dairy sector is not lucrative among the rural youth.