PART -I OF ABSTRACT

1. Title of the thesis : Assessment of Livelihood security of

small farmers in Shahpura block of
district Jabalpur.
2. Degree awarded : M.Sc. (Ag.) Agriculture Extension and
Communication
3. Year of award of degree :2019
4. Student : Sabyasachi Pradhan
Enrolment no. 170110017
Nuapada, Nayagarh district
Odisha, 752024
7978188027,9040305033
sabyasachipradhan16@gmail.com
5. Name and address of :Dr. A. K. Pande
major advisor Professor
Department of Extension Education
College of Agriculture Jabalpur, (M.P.)
Contact no. 9425384374
6. Member of the advisory :Dr.V. K. Pyasi
committee
7. Name of the department :Department of Extension Education
8. Name of the college :College of Agriculture, JNKVV Jabalpur
9. Total number of pages in :76
the thesis
10. Number of words in the :560
abstract

Signature Signature Signature

Dr.A.K.Pande Dr.N.K.Khare Sabyasachi Pradhan

(Chairman of Advisory (Professor and Head) (Student)
Committee) (Seal)

PART – II OF ABSTRACT
Livelihood security has been interpreted in different ways by various
scholars. While livelihood has been defined as an adequate flow of
resources to meet the basic needs of the people, access to social institutions
relating to kinship, family and neighbourhood, village and gender bias free
property rights required to support and sustain a given standard of living.
The government of india focusing on the strategy for improving the livelihood
security of the farmers, who are still lacking behind from the life style of
modern world. Therefore an attempt was made through this study to find out
the extent of livelihood security through their different means of livelihood
generation.

An ex-post facto research design was selected in order to study the

assessment of Livelihood security of small farmers in Shahpura block of
district Jabalpur during the year 2018-19. Shahpura block was purposively
selected as it has more number of small farmers as compare to other blocks
of Jabalpur. A representative sample of 120 farmers was selected for the
study spread over 8 villages. Data were collected by personally interviewing
120 farmers with the help of specially designed interview schedule. The data
were obtained through pre-tested structured schedule with the help of
interview which was prepared on the basis of objectives of the study. The
statistical tests and procedures like Frequency, Percentage, Mean, rank
order and Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation were used for interpreting
and analysing the data.

The detailed analysis of the profile characteristics of farmers indicated

that higher percentage of the respondents were from middle age group and
were educated up to middle school with medium farming experience and
majority of them were having small land holding. More than half of the
respondents were having low income having joint family while more than
sixty per cent of them were having 5 to 7 members in their family with
moderate innovativeness. Fifty per cent of them had medium extension
contact and more than half of them had low social participation. Higher
percentage of the respondents had medium mass media exposure with
medium economic orientation and medium risk orientation.

Regarding assessment livelihood security of farmers, it showed that

more than half of the respondents had medium livelihood security. were
moderately benefitted under the scheme.
 The relationship of respondents profile with livelihood security shows
that education, land holding, annual income, innovativeness, extension
contact, social participation, mass media exposure, economic orientation
and risk orientation were in positive and significant relationship with
livelihood security and age and family type had negative and significant
relationship with livelihood security whereas farming experience and family
size were not significantly related.
Constraints expressed by the farmers are like lack of awareness
about alternative enterprises, low soil fertility status, poor economic condition
of people, timely unavailability of labour, lack of information about new
technology in farming lack of cooperation among staff and people, lack of
remunerative sale price and incentive support.

Suggestions invited from the respondents to overcome the problems

perceived by them and for further frame of work are like support from non-
government agencies on different programme followed by availability of
credit to people in time, proper coordination and cooperation among people,
timely availability of inputs, demonstration of farmer fair on alternative
livelihood enterprises, exhibition on farming and other vocational practice,
technical guidance and supervision of extension agency, awareness
programmes on alternative vocations for the farmers,

Name and Signature of the student Name and Signature of the Advisor