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Subject: Agricultural Statistics and Informatics × Author: Ravi Shanker Singh × End date: 2018 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Agro-Demographic Factors and Pattern of Food Consumption on Tribal Farmers in Kanke Block of Ranchi District
    (Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, 1994) Ravi Shanker Singh; M. Ahsan
    In recent years people every where are very much concerned about food problem and every aspects is the vital question about nutritional adequacy of food grown and consumed by Indian farmers in general and tribal farmers in particular. As it is very well recognized tribal farmer of this area under study is highly characterized by the production of low quantity food grains in terms of nutritional value viz: coarse paddy, Marus, Kodo , sawa etc.In order to effect change in the cropping pattern and food habits of the tribal farmers, several steps have been initiated by educational and social reformatory institutions of the area. The south Chotanapur region constitute majority of tribal farmers in Bihar. The Tribal farm households differ with the nontribal in many respects of agro and demographic factors such as crops husbandry , animal husbandry practices, education, income , family size, employment, tastes, habits and performance etc. Because of these variations there are marked differences in the consumption habits of the tribal farmers. The present study was therefore undertaken to evaluate the consumption pattern of tribal and non-tribal households in Kanke block of Ranchi district of the state of Bihar. The studies of the agricultural practices of three sample village namely Sukurhuttu, Rarha and Nagri indicated that the net cultivated area in the three village were 36.44 per cent,9.27 per cent AND 54.20 per cent of the total area of the respective villages. The net cultivated area of the block as a while was found to be 37.91 per cent. Further analysis of the net cultivated area if the three village with respect to various crops grown indicted that most of the cultivated land were put to to Kharif crops only. However ,in Sukurhuttu village ,a significant acreage of the land was utilized for double cropping .Nearly 15.70 ha.out of the total land area of 1069.26 ha. Was put under the said double cropping . Regarding the other two village viz.Rarha and Nagri, the double cropping was practiced in 10.51 ha. And 3.26 ha. Of the total land area of these two villages respectively . The study futher revealed that out of the three villages slected for this study, only in Rarha a sizeable portion of the land was covered by forest. The forest area was approximately 49.04 per cent of the total area of that village. As also , in the village Nagri, a permanent pasture and grazing land ,comprising of 0.45 ha was found to exist. The study further revealed that the consumption of various food itens viz. cereals ,pulses,potato per day by non tribal farmers was higher than the tribal farmers. At the same time tribal farmer were found to lake behind in the intake of calories and proteins by the standard set by Indian council of Medical Research.The low intake of calories tribal as well as non tribal farmers show a shortage from the prescribed standard level. The preferred model for the tribal and non tribal categories of farmers could explain 84 and 71 percent of total variation in there protein intake respectively when all the six variation [operational holding, family size , educational level , income, on farm availability of food grain and employment status ]were excluded. Similarly the model could explain 89 and72 per cent of the total variation in there