Vol. 10, Special Issue 8 (2021)

Author(s):
RKR Sangamitra, P Eyazhini and A Elamaran

Abstract:
The study was undertaken to find out the socio-economic profile of the backyard poultry farmers in Thanjavur district of Tamilnadu. Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu state, India was purposively selected on the basis of better production profile of livestock and familiarity of the researcher with the local dialect and socio-cultural aspects of the area. Out of the nine taluks in Thanjavur district, Peravoorani taluk was randomly selected from which five villages were selected. From each of the selected villages, 10 respondents were selected randomly leading to a total of 50 respondents. The data was collected through personal interview method with the help of well-structured interview schedule from randomly selected 50 backyard poultry farmers in selected villages of Peravoorani taluk, Thanjavur district of Tamilnadu. Majority of the respondents were female (66.00%) and 55.00 per cent belongs to old age group (> 45 years) with 34.00 per cent had more than 6 years poultry farming experience. About 48.00 per cent of the respondents had annual income from 1-2 lakh. More than half (52.00%) had land holding up to 1 acre and 54.00 per cent had small flock size (<20 birds). Majority (88.00%) of them had small family size (< 5 members) and living as nuclear family (84.00%). Nearly half respondents had education level ranges from secondary (30.00%) to middle (22.00%) level and more than half of them had livestock farming and agriculture as their occupation.