National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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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 |
Vermicomposting venture has a potential to help farmers fetch reasonable profits with little inputs. Vermicomposting is gaining popularity among rural women folk and is empowering them in many ways. The same has gained popularity among the women folks too. A study was planned to assess the socioeconomic status of women farmers getting their livelihood from vermicompost production in the districts of Bandipora and Baramulla of Jammu and Kashmir. The result revealed that 68.2 % farmers lived in nuclear families, while the remaining 31.8 % lived jointly, with the average nuclear and joint family size of 5.6 ± 0.43 and 10.71 ± 1.65 members respectively. Majority of the families were headed by males (86.4 %) with the overall head’s literacy rate being 18.2 %. Literacy rate of the women vermicompost farmers average to 27.3 %. Overall literacy rate of male members in their families was found to be more than the female members. The family constituted of 51.14 % earning male members and 47.04 % earning female members. Livestock owned by them included cattle, sheep, goat, horses, ducks and geese. Overall, 81.8 % famers owned land which they used for varied purposes.
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