ATTITUDE AND LIVELIHOOD SECURITY OF SMALL AND MARGINAL FARMERS TOWARDS AGRICULTURAL DIVERSIFICATION 3693
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2023-06
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JAU,JUNAGADH
Abstract
In India, agriculture plays a crucial role in agrarian economies, but small and
marginal farmers are facing unsustainable land-based livelihoods. Their land no longer
meets their families' and cattle' food and fodder needs. Diversification has been seen as a
strategy to minimize risks caused by price fluctuations, uncertain weather, and pests.
Traditionally, diversification involved growing multiple crops for subsistence farming and
managing household food security. Keeping this in view, present study was thought to be
carried out with selected characteristics of small and marginal farmers, livelihood security,
extent of agricultural diversification, to develop and measure the attitude scale, relation
between selected characteristics and attitude as well as agricultural diversification,
constraints and suggestions offered by the small and marginal farmers.
The study was conducted in three districts viz., Junagadh, Rajkot and Gir
Somnath of Saurashtra region. Two talukas from each selected district and three villages
from each taluka were selected randomly. From each village, seven small and seven
marginal farmers were selected. Thus, 126 small and 126 marginal farmers making a
total 252 respondents were selected for the study.