Vol. 9, Special Issue 4 (2020)

Author(s):
Sonam Upadhyay, Dr. NK Khare and Dr. Kamini Bisht

Abstract:
The study was carried out in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh with the objective to assess the impact of subsidies on upliftment of socio-economic status of tribal farmers. Mandla block was selected randomly and proportionate random sampling was used to make sample size 161. The result of the study revealed that before taking subsidy, majority of beneficiaries (95.04%) had medium income generation, whereas 61.49 per cent of beneficiaries had low purchasing power and 94.41 per cent of beneficiaries had low decision-making. While after taking subsidy 59.01 per cent of beneficiaries had medium income generation, 53.43 per cent of beneficiaries had medium purchasing power and 62.12 per cent had medium decision-making. The t-test calculated was found to be significant at 0.05 level of probability, indicated that there was considerable difference between before and after intervention of subsidy by tribal farmers.