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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The present study to access the assured income and employment through different activities implemented under watershed programme with reference to the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries for the purposely selected two districts from the Nagaland state viz; Dimapur and Kohima as both were selected purposely due to the maximum number of area covered under watershed in the zone and further two blocks from each district were randomly selected, while in the second stage a multi stage random purposive sampling methods viz; 320 respondents (160 beneficiaries and 160 non-beneficiaries) were selected randomly from identified watershed areas. Further study reveals that overall average of beneficiaries income was found to be maximum (22.75 per cent) through forestry and plantation crop, followed by 21.03 per cent through crop production, while it was least through service as 3.45 per cent of the total income. Even overall average the employment trend shows maximum (40.37 per cent), followed by animal husbandry as 21.72 per cent contributed towards the employment generated on the beneficiary watershed programme during the study period.