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 |
This study is undertaken in inter-mediate hill agro-ecological zone of Jammu and Kashmir to identify the different livelihood strategies adopted by the household and what are the factors which are responsible for adopting of these livelihood strategies. A total of 251 tribal hill farmers were surveyed from Rajouri and Poonch districts comprising of 25 villages drawn from 4 blocks representing lower, mid and high altitude villages. The study uses Sustainability Livelihood Framework approach, descriptive analysis and ordinal logistic regression model. Results revealed that only 31 per cent of households’ income comes from agriculture and rest (69%) comes from off-form sources for their livelihoods. The estimates of family size, no. of workers, household education, house value, fixed assets, loan and urgent need non-farm work show negative and significant relation with dependent variable (dependence on agriculture) indicating that with the increase in the value of these explanatory variables their dependence on agriculture reduces. Due to low income from agriculture and allied activities, households are diversifying more towards the off-farm sources of income. Government through development departments and research stations should make proper efforts in providing proper technical knowhow and latest farming methods and input technologies in order to boost the efficiency and productivity which has remained confined to plains only. Building of social overheads and increased investment in mountainous region apart from proper training through skill development programmes should be provided so that these mountainous people can augment their income by employing in different agriculture and allied income generating activities.
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