Vol. 10, Special Issue 10 (2021)

Author(s):
Lekhu Kumar and Bheroo Singh Bhati

Abstract:
The current research was conducted on Socio-Economic Status of Backyard Poultry Rearers in Banswara District of Rajasthan, three blocks of Banswara district i.e. Abapura, Banswara and Kushalgarh were selected for the study purpose. Three villages were selected from the each identified block. 15 farmers from every village were randomly selected for a study of 135 respondents. The examination revealed that all the selected farmers belong to tribe of Hindu religion and 55.56 per cent recipients live in joint families. The recipients were mostly having 4-6 members in their family (65.93 per cent).The literacy rate of whole family was 73.15 per cent and maximum farmers depend on agriculture plus animal husbandry profession (77.04) and living in mixed type houses (53.33). Most of the farmers (54.07 per cent) had 1-2 ha land followed by (35.56 per cent) less than 1 ha land, poultry species predilection by the farmers was supreme (61.48 per cent).