Vol. 11, Special Issue 10 (2022)

Author(s):
Siddhartha Savale, R Senthilkumar, Dhanraj Girimal, Subin K Mohan, Udaykumar and Gurunath Pasare

Abstract:
Kozhikoottam is a poultry farming entrepreneurial venture under Kudumbashree (Women self-help group) in Kerala, Kudumbashree has been empowering women in Kerala since 1998 by appealing women in a number of employment generation activities. A study was designed to analyse socio economic profile of Kozhikoottam beneficiaries of Wayanad district. Multi stage random sampling technique was adopted, 75 beneficiaries were selected and data was collected using personal interview. The study revealed that majority of the Kozhikoottam beneficiaries studied were of studied were of middle age with primary education, belonging Muslim religion and unreserved communities. It could also be observed that majority of them were living as nuclear families and size of the family was three to four members. Primary occupation was agriculture and secondary occupation being animal husbandry with above ten years of experience. Land owned by majority of beneficiaries was well irrigated with size of below one acre and birds possessed by each beneficiary were 16-20 each with average flock size of 18 birds. As majority beneficiaries are of educated and owning land chances for improving their livelihood by animal husbandry activities is possible