Vol. 10, Special Issue 11 (2021)

Author(s):
Budharam, Heera Lal Bugalia and Lekhu Kumar

Abstract:
The current research was conducted on Socio-Economic Status of Backyard Poultry Rearers in Dungarpur District of Rajasthan, four blocks of Dungarpur district i.e. Dungarpur, Bicchiwada, Aspur and Sagwara 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 sample of 180 respondents. The examination revealed that all the selected farmers belong to tribe of Hindu religion and 51.11 per cent recipients live in joint families. The recipients were mostly having 4-6 members in their family (69.44 per cent).The literacy rate of whole family was 62.62 per cent and all the farmers depend on agriculture plus animal husbandry profession and living in mixed type houses. Most of the farmers (46.67 per cent) had 1-2 ha land followed by (45.00 per cent) less than 1 ha land, poultry species predilection by the farmers was supreme (70.56 per cent).