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 |
The present study was taken up in the state of Tripura where two districts viz- Sepahijala and Gomati were purposively selected as these were mostly inhabited by Deb Barma and Jamatia tribes. Four villages from each district were selected and a total of 100 respondents were selected by Snowball sampling method making the total sample size 200. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents from Deb Barma tribe had medium level (67.00 percent) of participation in livestock farming activities followed by High (22.00 percent) and low (11.00 percent) level of participation. The mean and S.D were 38.53 and 5.589 respectively. While in Jamatia tribe a large majority of the respondents had medium (82.00 percent) level of participation followed by low (16.00 percent) level of participation and high (2.00 percent) level of participation. The mean and S.D were 40.93 and 6.212 respectively. The ‘t’ value was 2.871 which was significant at 0.05 level of probability. In pooled sample majority had medium level of participation (74.50) followed by low (13.50) and high (12.00) level of participation. In respect of time spent in different livestock activities, majority of the Deb Barma respondents spent medium length of time (73.00%) followed by long time (19.00%) and short time (8.00%) . The respondents in Jamatia tribe also exhibited similar trend with majority having spent medium length of time (82.00%) followed by 13.00% and 5.00% in short and long period respectively. The ‘t’ value (3.649) was observed to be significant at 0.05 level of probability. Further, it was noticed that majority of the respondents (77.50) spent medium length of time in various livestock activities followed by those spending long period (12.00 per cent) and short period (10.50).
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