tailieunhanh - A study on the socio-personal profile of the farmers practicing integrated fish farming of Manipur, India

The present study was conducted with an objective to analyses the socio-personal profile of farmers practicing integrated-fish-farming of Manipur. This study was conducted on 300 farmers in 15 villages viz. Takcham, Tentha, Athokpam, Lameidong, Wabagai, Hiyanglam, Khabi Bomdiar, Wangoi, Uchiwa, Leimapokpam, Irengbam, Maibam, Naharup, Heyanglam, and Top. These 15 villages were selected from 5 districts viz. Thoubal, Kakching, Imphal West, Bishnupur and Imphal East district, respectively. It was aimed to analyses the Socio-personal profile of the farmers practicing the integrated-fishfarming. The study was undertaken from March 2017 to October 2018 and the data pertain of the year 2017 and 2018. In the present study, data was generated through a sample survey of farmers by personal interview method using pretested well-structured interview schedule. Random sampling was adopted for the selection of the respondents. From the study it is obtain that the farmer engages in integrated fish farming farmers have the following parameters with majority of age group show 36-60 year (), married (), OBC (), High School (), Joint family type (), Family size above 5 (), IFF as sole profession(48%), member of an organization (). The study concluded that understanding of socio-personal characteristics of the farmer practicing integrated fish farming can hold the extension agents to formulate various training design to target the specific level of farmers. | A study on the socio-personal profile of the farmers practicing integrated fish farming of Manipur, India