Vol. 11, Special Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Mamathalakshmi N, Pushpa P, Jasmitha BG and Divyashree HN

Abstract:
The study was conducted to know about demographic profile and livelihood security among agricultural labourers in Karnataka in three different agro climatic regions viz., rainfed, irrigated and plantation. The results revealed that 39.52 per cent of the agricultural labourers belonged to medium level of livelihood security which is tracked by 32.38 per cent and 28.10 per cent had high and low levels of livelihood security, respectively. With respect to profile of the respondents 35.24 per cent of them belonged to middle age group, 68.10 per cent had low education, 60.48 per cent had low land holding, 50.00 per cent had low livestock possession, 45.24 per cent belonged to OBC and general caste, 47.14 per cent had medium family size, 67.62 per cent enjoying nuclear family type, 47.14 per cent had medium dependency ratio and 43.81 per cent had medium adjustability. Further, majority of them belonged to low participation in developmental process (94.29%), medium farming system practiced (41.43%), low determination in work situation (34.28%), low savings (53.33%), medium indebtedness (46.19%), low training received (94.29%), low information seeking behaviour (38.58%), low self confidence (45.24%), medium risk orientation (47.15%), low scientific orientation (39.05%), low value orientation (36.67%), high social participation (36.67%), medium extension participation (57.62%), medium economic motivation (43.81%), low achievement motivation (40.95%), low deferred gratification (39.05%), medium innovative proneness (40.00%), medium cosmopoliteness (57.62%), medium mass media utilization (53.34%) and medium management orientation (45.24%). The statistic value Mahalnobis ‘D²’ calculated was 50.16 and ‘F’ ratio calculated was 36.92 which were found to be highly significant (P<0.01) in pooled situation. The variables namely management orientation (45.97%), training received (23.00%), risk orientation (10.48%), indebtedness (7.28%), self confidence (3.95%), farming system practiced (3.93%), scientific orientation (3.07%), land holding (1.31%) and achievement motivation (1.04%) occupied first nine ranks (position) in discriminant function analysis.