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ThesisItem Open Access SCOPE OF AUGMENTING FARMERS’ INCOME IN SMALL TEA PLANTATIONS - A CASE STUDY IN TITABOR SUB-DIVISION OF JORHAT DISTRICT(AAU, Jorhat, 2019-07) Bordoloi, Shyamal Kishore; Deka, M.The study entitled “Scope of Augmenting Farmers’ Income in Small Tea Plantations- A case study in Titabar Sub Division of Jorhat district” was undertaken with the following objectives: 1. To study the socio-economic status of the small tea growers 2. To examine the existing farming systems and utilization of resources 3. To identify the constraints and measures for augmenting the farm income. The present study was conducted in Titabar Sub division of Jorhat district, which include two development blocks viz. Titabar development block and Jorhat East development block. The sample selection was done using Stratified Random Sampling technique, for which information was collected from Primary sources and Secondary sources. Primary data were collected through interview technique with structured interview schedule prepared by the researcher. The socio economic status study of the small tea growers revealed that major section of the farmers belong to the age group 15-60 years (62.85%) where involvement of male was found to be highest (59.11%) and most of the farmers had educational qualification of HS standard (37.34%) where females constitute the highest (51.91%). The study on farming systems revealed that in the study area the researcher found five types farming systems viz. Tea, Field & Horticulture crops, Plantation crops excluding tea (FS-I), Tea, Field & Horticulture crops, Plantation crops excluding tea, Fishery (FS-II), Tea, Field & Horticulture crops, Fishery (FS-III), Tea, Field & Horticulture crops (FS-IV) and Tea, Plantation crops excluding tea (FS-V). Among the farming systems the no. of respondents was found to be highest in FS-I and lowest in FS-IV. The variable cost involved in various farming systems was found to be highest in FS-II (Rs. 163946.96 farm-1yr-1) and was lowest in FS-IV (Rs. 52420.20 farm-1yr-1) whereas after doing ANOVA single factor analysis of the Benefit Cost ratios, it was found that FS-II has the highest mean value (2.92) and FS-IV has the lowest mean (0.89) which was due to variation in inclusion of different components in the farming systems. Studying the various constraints, it was found that the number of physical constraints were highest and social constraints were lowest, from where it can be analysed that there is a great scope of overcoming the constraints as major constraints was found under physical category which can be rectified by following proper farming practices. Small tea growers of the study area had a wide scope of augmenting the income from their limited farm resources by following proper cultivation practices, moving towards organic tea cultivation, forming farmer producer company through which they can collectively bargain for inputs and sell the tea in a common platform. Involving high yielding varieties of other components, crop rotation, diversification of enterprise, proper utilization of fallow land and market consciousness can help in increasing the income from the other components other than tea.
