Borthakur, BikashDeka, Rahul Kanti2024-01-112024-01-112022-09https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810206181In recent years the group approach to poverty alleviation is getting recognition in Asian countries. Mostly, women are mobilized in to groups for undertaking mutually beneficial social and economic activities. The group provides the women a base for self-employment and empowerment through group dynamics. In India these mutual help based groups are known as Self Help Group (SHG). In 1999, GOI introduced Swarn Jayanti Gram Swarojgar Yojana, a programme aimed at bringing families above the poverty line by ensuring sustainable level of income over a period of time which later in 2011 renamed as NRLM and in 2016 again renamed as DAY-NRLM. NRLM is being implemented in Assam by Assam State Rural Livelihoods Mission Society (ASRLMS) with the objectives laid by NRLM for enhancing the social and economic empowerment of the rural poor of Assam. Although several researches have been conducted on SHGs in general, negligible research has carried out in Animal husbandry in particular. So, the present study entitled “Women empowerment through self - help group with Special Reference To Animal Husbandry is proposed with the objectives a) to study the socio-personnel and economic profile of women SHG members, b) to appraise the organizational dynamics and financial management of SHG, c) to study different dimensions of empowerment of women SHG members, and d) to delineate the constraints as perceived by the respondents in rearing and marketing of livestock and poultry. Four block namely Rangia and Kamalpur from Kamrup (R) and Pub Nalbari and Paschim Nalbari from Nalbari district have selected. As such, 25 respondents or women SHG members from each block were selected randomly making the total sample size 100. A pretested, reliable, and valid interview schedule was used for data collection. The data collected were analyzed using standard statistical methods. Majority of the respondents i.e. 64.00 per cent were in middle age category and the average age was found to be 47.00 years. 87 per cent of respondents were married while only 5.00 percent were widows and 8.00 per cent were unmarried.It was observed that 75.00 per cent farm women resided as nuclear family while 25.00 per cent as a joint family. 81.00 per cent of the respondents having medium family size with average size of 6. It was found that most respondents i.e. 78.00 per cent had medium educational qualification. Majority of the respondents 53.00 per cent were doing agriculture and animal husbandry as the major occupation. Majority of the respondents having medium level of experience in animal husbandry. Majority of the respondents i.e. 55.00 per cent are doing goatery, dairy and poultry as their livestock occupation. 100 per cent of the respondents took loan from bank, village organization and cluster level federation. 47.00 per cent of the respondent’s medium level of social participation. 100 per cent of the respondents attended either formal or consultancy based training. 62.00 per cent of the respondents having medium level of mass media exposure. 67.00 per cent of the respondents having medium level of extension agency contact. Majority i.e. 89.00 per cent of the respondents adopted middle man as the marketing channel. It was observed majority of the respondents having medium level of land holding. It was reflected in the study that most respondents in all four blocks, respondents had medium level of income from livestock with an average of Rs. 118819/year. Total annual income of respondents in selected block was of medium level with an average of Rs. 226667. Among 9 variables age shown negative correlation with women empowerment where as other other 8 variables have shown positive correlation. In case of correlation with constraints, among 9 variables, age shown positive correlation whereas other 8 variables shown negative correlation. Significant relation in regression analysis between independent variables and women empowerment is shown by age (p< 0.05) and educational qualification (p<0.05). In constraints with independent variables experience in animal husbandry showed a negative and significant relation (p< 0.05). The co-efficient of multiple determination (R2) value was found to be 0.426, and the F value for R was found to be non-significant.EnglishThesis