Vol. 11, Special Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Jaydev Haldar, Jagdish Narayan Prasad and Dr. YK Singh

Abstract:
India is a youth country and rural youth constitute about 41% of the total population of India. In the present scenario, the interest of rural people especially rural youth towards agriculture is decreasing. India is an agricultural country or it would not be wrong to say that India lives in villages. Of this, about 70% were rural youth and the remaining 30% were urban youth. In the present study Bhanupratappur block, Kanker district (Chhattisgarh) was deliberately selected. A stratified random sampling procedure was followed to obtain a suitable sample of rural youth. The total sample size was 70. The dependent variable was the participation of rural youth in agricultural activities. 12.85 percent had low level of participation in agricultural activities and size of family was did not any association with the extent of participation in agricultural activities.