Livelihood dependency and living standard of farmers in scheduled area of Madhya Pradesh

AbstractThe livelihood dependency of tribal farmers has been assessed in scheduled areas of Madhya Pradesh i.e. Barwani district was selected randomly for the present study under externally funded project. Two types of respondents as sample i.e. sole farming respondents and diversified farming with allied activities respondents (tribal farmers) were selected. Opinion regarding livelihood dependency of about 80 percent respondents of diversified farming with allied activities group and sole farming group are agreed that their livelihood were not depending on merely sole farming, whereas a big majority of both respondents group are agreed that livelihood depending on diversified farming with allied activities. A double majority/percentage of respondents of diversified farming and allied activities group than respondents of sole farming group are strongly agreed about living quality standard in case of ‘surviving and health indicator’ and ‘social reputational indicators’. The constraints were reported by researcher are like more expenses on smoking or drinking, lack of proper scientific knowledge about farming, lack of farm infrastructure, lack of extension/ awareness programme ‘lack of knowledge about govt. subsidies based programme’ and ‘believe on traditional life’ etc. The suggestion of researcher given under sub-heads to be considered by respondents for overcome on the constraints i.e. regarding awareness creation, regarding transfer of technology, regarding infrastructure development, regarding general need.