A STUDY ON ATTITUDE OF FARMERS TOWARDS LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION IN KOLAR DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
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2019-10-05
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UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, GKVK BENGALURU
Abstract
The study was conducted in Kolar district of Karnataka state to analyse the
attitude of farmers towards livelihood diversification and to find out the nature and extent
of livelihood diversification among farmers. One hundred fifty farmers consisting of 50
marginal farmers, 50 small farmers and 50 big farmers were personally interviewed for
the study. The findings revealed that a majority of farmers (69%) had favourable to more
favourable attitude towards livelihood diversification. The results also revealed that 46.7
per cent of the farmers were belonging to moderately livelihood diversified category,
while 30.6 and 33.7 per cent of the farmers were belonging to highly diversified and less
diversified category, respectively. The major livelihood activities practised by farmers
include agriculture (98.66%), animal husbandry (82.66%), horticulture (64%) and
agriculture labour (52%). Age, education, farming experience, annual family income,
economic motivation, management orientation, innovative proneness, awareness about
livelihood diversification, mass media participation, extension participation of farmers
had significant to highly significant relationship with their attitude and extent of
diversification practised. The major constraints encountered by the farmers were lack of
water resources, lack of market facilities for the products, insufficient government
incentives, inadequate knowledge about diversification and lack of adequate natural
resources for practising livelihood diversification.