tailieunhanh - A study on the economic activities of farm households in the sub-tropics of Jammu, India

The study was undertaken to analyse the economic activities of farm households in the sub-tropics of Jammu region of Jammu & Kashmir state and whether farm households depend exclusively on agriculture for their livelihood or not. The study was conducted by employing non-experimental descriptive research design. Multi stage sampling technique was applied for selecting a total sample of 370 farmers: 270 rice-wheat cultivating farmers from Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts and 100 vegetable cultivating farmers from Jammu district. The data were collected from the respondents by using the pre-tested interview schedule by means of faceto-face/personal interview method. The results revealed that, only 22 per cent ricewheat farmers and 13 per cent vegetable farmers (households) dependent exclusively on agriculture related activities for their livelihood. The share of offfarm economic activities was 78 and 87 per cent in rice-wheat and vegetable farm households, respectively which included: government employment, private employment, retired from employment, business/shopkeeper, and casual labourer among others. It is clear that for most of the farm households in the sub-tropics of Jammu, farming is not the sole and primary economic activity and agriculture is not providing economic security to the rice-wheat and vegetable farmers. | A study on the economic activities of farm households in the sub-tropics of Jammu, India