Livelihood Security of Farmers in Meghalaya under Tribal Sub-Plan: A Result-Based Evaluation
| dc.contributor.advisor | Chauhan, J. K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Thangjam, Deepa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-02T09:08:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-02-02T09:08:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-12 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Livelihood security is the access to adequate basic needs for sustaining life such as food, clothing, shelter. In order to improve the livelihood security and socio-economic status of the farmers, Central Agricultural University (CAU), Imphal has taken up Tribal Sub Plan (TSP) project in Meghalaya during the crop year 2016-17. The present study was taken up to evaluate the performance of TSP with respect to the livelihood security of the beneficiary farmers with three objectives viz., (1) To develop a result-based evaluation tool for Tribal Sub Plan project executed by CAU, Imphal in the state of Meghalaya, (2) To perform impact evaluation of Tribal Sub Plan project undertaken by CAU, Imphal in the state of Meghalaya, and (3) To explore amicable lessons and bottleneck issues associated with agricultural livelihood security of respondents under TSP. The research was carried out in two districts of Meghalaya, namely, Ri-Bhoi district and West Garo Hill district owing to the existence of two colleges under CAU(I) and from which, samples of 270 and 120 beneficiary farmers were selected following complete enumeration from Ri-Bhoi district and West Garo Hills district respectively. The Tribal Agricultural Development Index (TADI) was developed to evaluate the performance of TSP. Impact evaluation was performed by following the Before-After analysis. The research revealed that majority of the respondents were between 30 - 42 years of Age, and have ‘Marginal Farm Land.’ Based on thecommunication variables, it was found that majority of the respondents have ‘High Contact with Personal Localite’, ‘Medium Contact with Extension Personnel’, ‘Medium Cosmopoliteness’, and ‘Medium Nature of Social Participation.’ The study further observed that majority of the respondents had low ‘Annual Income (<`2,26,000/-)’, ‘Mass Media Exposure’, and ‘Usage of ICTs.’ Pertaining to the psychological characteristics, it was observed that majority of the respondents had medium level of ‘Decision Making Ability’, ‘Scientific Orientation’, and ‘Risk Orientation.’ In vehemently, the study unveiled that nearly 70% of the respondents were in the range of 0.4-0.7 apropos of TADI values which could infer that TSP had moderately benefitted the tribal beneficiary farmers. With the statistical t-values of 13.769 and 34.35 @ 0.01 pertaining to ‘Agricultural Livelihood Security Index’ and ‘Empowerment Index’, the study concluded that the TSP had significant positive changes in both securing agricultural livelihood and empowering the respondents of the study. The most outstanding problems faced by the respondents were ‘Pest and Diseases Infestation.’ | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810193110 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.pages | [26], 174p. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, CAU-Imphal, Umiam | en_US |
| dc.sub | Agricultural Extension | en_US |
| dc.subject | Living standards | en_US |
| dc.theme | Academic Research | en_US |
| dc.these.type | Ph.D | en_US |
| dc.title | Livelihood Security of Farmers in Meghalaya under Tribal Sub-Plan: A Result-Based Evaluation | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |