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Author: Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta × End date: 2017 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    A micro-level study on dimensions of emerging livelihood pattern of rural tribal youth in Tripura
    (College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, CAU-Imphal, Umiam, 2016-08) Bhattacharjee, Suchiradipta; Sarkar, Atanu
    For the tribes of Tripura, resettlement drive to alien environment for substitution of jhum and transformation of land use pattern in the process have led to major restructuring in their occupational pattern. Under this emerging scenario, paying attention was felt crucial to the various factors and processes that either constrain or enhance poor people’s ability to make living sustainable. In this backdrop, the present ex-post facto study was undertaken during mid 2014 to mid 2015 in four Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) villages as selected from four blocks of first two tribal concentrated districts of the state viz. Dhalai and Gomati with the purpose to analyze and understand the emerging trends of livelihood vis-a-vis occupational pattern among the tribal youth, interplaying of various socio-economic and socio-personal factors as its possible causes, issues pertaining to gender dimensions in the whole process of emerging livelihood scenario, and handicaps being faced by the tribal youth in sustainably pursuing livelihood activities. For primary survey, 184 respondents were selected through multi-stage sampling as per differential resource endowment status, age group category and sex criteria as well. Salient findings suggested that: i) the majority of resource poor youth were engaged in low return non-remunerative sectors of occupations; ii) while less number of occupational activities were being pursued by the resource endowed youth compared to both of their older age counterparts, it was opposite for the respondents from resource poor category; iii) compared to both their two older age group counterparts, lesser diversification index and distribution of income proportion across lesser occupational means were found for the youth as a whole; iv) although, irrespective of resource endowment status, both size of land holding and asset endowment appeared as most important factors to influence occupational diversity, complex interplaying of various other socio-economic and socio-personal determinants, however, observed to be singularly and/or mutually acting upon occupational diversification; v) existence of no gender disaggregated difference in socio-economic and socio-personal characteristics of the youth respondents; vi) although their socio-economic and socio-personal features significantly differed with resource endowment status, no such difference was observed according to their differential spatial distributions among the young women; and vii) low risk bearing ability, absence of veterinary facilities, turn-off of agricultural sector to be non-remunerative one, inadequacy in vocational skill enhancement through organized training, and reduced mobility and migration to cities for occupational purposes specifically for women were the major constraints identified. Based upon the constraints perceived by the youth in pursuing livelihood choices, the recommendations the study were: i) elaborate institutional arrangement for enabling resource poor tribal youth to invest in natural resource potential based high return sectors through vocational skill building; ii) appropriate technology mediated intervention especially on land productivity enhancement through improved crop husbandry and promotion of integrated farming with incorporation of livestock, horticulture and/or fishery component(s) as per choice and local suitability; iii) provisioning of extensive veterinary health service network for timely preventive and curative measures of the livestock to boost up the backyard based small livestock production systems; and iv) enabling women, preferably in group, to set up cottage scale production/processing units using bamboo, canes, pineapple and its leaf fibre, rubber, fish, turmeric, ginger, broom grass, etc. through required capacity building and provisioning of buy back of the products by a designated state institution for organized marketing.