Year: 2015 | Month: December | Volume 1 | Issue 1
A Study on Constraints Encountered by the Tribal Livestock Farmers in Southern Rajasthan
Pankaj Lawania and Shobhana Gupta
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Abstract :
The study was conducted in Sirohi district of Southern Rajasthan, in order to identify the problems faced by the tribal farmers and to work out the relationship of problems with socio-economic and psychological traits of the respondents. The findings revealed that major problems faced by the tribal farmers were economic problem, less profit from domesticated animals, non-availability of green fodder, non-availability of superior male animal, harassment by the forest personnel in open grazing, lack of easy accesses to veterinarian, absence of scientific farming etc. The relational analysis revealed that occupational and family income from animal husbandry had positive and highly significant (P<0.01) influence on problems of livestock rearing. On the other hand, livestock unit showed negative and highly significant influence on problems of livestock rearing.
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