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Contribution of Enterprises of Integrated Farming System Approach in Income Generation among Tribal Farmers of Tripura and their Socio Economic Status

S. K. Acharya , Sankhyashree Roy , S. K. Acharya

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Indian Journal of Agriculture Business 1(2):p 101-110, . | DOI:
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In India, farmers concentrate mainly on crop production which is invariably subjected to a high degree of uncertainty in income and employment. To sustain the income and productivity, the farmers has to integrate ancillary propositions with crop production. Under such circumstances, it will be required to undertake some land use based enterprises which will complement their existing farming activity to get more income and employment, leading to better standard of living. Such enterprises include crop husbandry, dairy, piggery, backyard poultry, goat keeping, sericulture, etc. The objective of the study is to identify the components of Integrated Farming System, to estimate the percentage of contribution of each enterprises in income generation, to estimate the socio economic status of the tribal peoples and to generate micro level policies. To conclude the work, following independent and dependent variables were taken: Age, Education, Family Education Status, Family Size, Educational Aspiration, Farm Mechanization, Farm Size, Economic Status, Adoption leadership, Scientific Orientation, Risk Orientation, Management Orientation, Orientation towards Competition  and Annual Income of farmers. State Tripura, district West Tripura, block Kamalghat and village Shantipara were selected purposively as because there are more number of Tribal farmers and the number of respondents 82 were selected randomly. By analyzing the data with statistical tools, such as, Frequency, Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation, Coefficient of Variation and Factor analysis, the following results were obtained: Among the component enterprises, contribution of piggery is highest and Forestry is lowest towards income generation of the farmers as all the respondents are tribal people. Socio-Economic profile concludes that most of the villagers are middle aged, have land holding of 1 to 5 acres, studied up to primary school, resides in mixed type of houses and have annual income up to Rs 1,50,000.

Keywords: Annual Income; Productivity; Tribal Farmers; Socio-Economic Status; Integrated Farming System; Enterprises. 

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  • Sankhyashree Roy
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  • S. K. Acharya
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