Assessment of livelihood system and strategies in rural households: A gender analysis
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kaushik, Sushma | |
| dc.contributor.author | Suchitra | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-12T04:50:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-12-12T04:50:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Livelihoods are the ways in which people satisfy their needs, or gain a living. The present study was conducted in four districts two each from Eastern and Western zones of Haryana. Total 300 household from different landholding categories were selected from four villages of the selected districts. Socio-economic profile of the respondents revealed that majority of the households was headed by males. Majorities of landless male as well as females were working as casual labour while most of small, medium and large lands holding males were self-employed in agriculture in both the zones. Income of majority of landless and marginal households was mainly through wages but other categories earned income through farming, livestock, salary and other sources. Medium framers in Eastern and large farmers in Western zone scored high for intensification/extensification strategies while small and medium farmers had higher scores for diversification. Crop intensity up to the extent of 100-200 per cent was obtained by majority of farmers irrespective of land holding and zone, though about one fourth large farmers were getting crop intensity above 200 per cent. Physical, financial and social assets increased with size of land holding, while human and natural assets decreased. Maximum ratio of working to non working population was found among landless categories. Prevalence of chronic illness was found more among larger landholding categories and even more among females. Insect/ pest attack, irregular income, inflation in cost of inputs, unemployment, non-supportive governance policies, poor support price/procurement, non availability of quality seeds/fertilizers were perceived as serious problems among majority of farmers. Different categories of farmers adopted coping mechanism to tackle the problems. Land, caste, family size, education and occupation were found positively and significantly associated with assets and livelihood strategies. Coping mechanism was found positively and significantly associated with caste, education, family education and livelihood strategies. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810037388 | |
| dc.keywords | Livelihood, Livelihood assets, Livelihood sources, Risk and vulnerability, Coping mechanism | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | CCSHAU | en_US |
| dc.sub | Extension Education | en_US |
| dc.subject | null | en_US |
| dc.theme | Assessment of livelihood system and strategies in rural households: A gender analysis | en_US |
| dc.these.type | Ph.D | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of livelihood system and strategies in rural households: A gender analysis | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |