RURAL LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION IN DIBRUGARH DISTRICT OF ASSAM

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dc.contributor.advisorHazarika, J.P.
dc.contributor.authorSonowal, Anjana
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-30T06:41:41Z
dc.date.available2020-09-30T06:41:41Z
dc.date.issued2019-07
dc.description.abstractIndia is primarily an agrarian society with two third of its population living in rural areas. For majority of the population, agriculture and its allied activities are the main source of livelihood hence performance of the agriculture sector plays an important role in economic growth of our country. Livelihood is defined as the set of all activities involved in finding food, searching for water, shelter, clothing and all necessities required for human survival at individual and household level. Diversification has been defined as “the process by which rural households construct an increasingly diverse portfolio of activities and social support capabilities in order to survive and to improve their standard of living” (Ellis, 1998). The present study entitled “Rural livelihood diversification in Dibrugarh District of Assam” was carried out to examine the rural livelihood diversification. A total of 90 sample respondents were randomly selected using multi stage random sampling technique. For analysing the data, various statistical tools like average, percentage, Simpson index of diversification, multiple regression function, Garret’s ranking technique and cost concepts were used. To study the existing pattern of rural livelihood diversification, analysis was carried out across farm size and livelihood groups. Farm size groups were Marginal, Small, Medium and Large, and Livelihood groups were Agriculture group, Agriculture & allied activities group, salaried group, Business group. The findings revealed that for all the farm size groups, different sources of livelihood were crop farming, livestock farming, fish farming, salaried job, business and wage earning. For an average farm, per farm annual income across farm size, crop contributed highest (51.55%) to the total income followed by salaried job (23.40%), fishery (7.96%), livestock (7.33%) and business (7.23%) and lowest by wage earning (5.52%). In case of livelihood groups, for agriculture group, income from crop component to the total annual income was highest (86.69%), for agriculture & allied group, highest income was contributed by crop component with 63.02 per cent. Whereas for salaried group highest income was contributed by salary (65.72%) and only 27.36 per cent was contributed by crop component and for business group, 67.12 per cent was contributed by business. Pattern based on on-farm income sources across farm size indicates that diversification index value for marginal farmers was highest (0.58) and lowest for large farms (0.28). Based on the income from non-farm sources, marginal farmers had highest diversification index value (0.48) & small farmers had lowest diversification index value (0.37). Based on total income from on-farm and nonfarm income sources, diversification index for small farmers was 0.46 and 0.32 for large farmers. Based on income generated by on-farm and non-farm income sources across livelihood groups, agriculture & allied activities group had least diversification index (0.20) and salaried group had highest index value (0.45). Based on all income sources across livelihood groups, agriculture & allied activities group was most diversified with highest value of diversification index (0.56) followed by salaried group (0.50). Apart from farm income and employment generation, risk minimization can be done up to a considerable extent. There were few factors such as age, education, family size, access to credit, training, which were affecting the livelihood diversification. Constraints related to the diversification of rural livelihood were also studied according to different farm size groups. Constraints were classified as: infrastructural, promotional, economic, and environmental constraints.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810152132
dc.keywordsRURAL LIVELIHOOD, DIVERSIFICATIONen_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherAAU, Jorhaten_US
dc.subAgricultural Economicsen_US
dc.themeRURAL LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION IN DIBRUGARH DISTRICT OF ASSAMen_US
dc.these.typeM.Scen_US
dc.titleRURAL LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION IN DIBRUGARH DISTRICT OF ASSAMen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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