NABARD Study 2017-18

Understanding changes in ecosystem of farmers’ households in select villages of Vidarbha

Questionnaire for Farmer

District: Village: HoH Name: Age:

Demographic Features:

Sr. Name Age Education Skill Job/ Since Income

No. (Y) (class) (indicate name) Occupation (year) (2017)
HoH

History of Family Farming (earliest memory since year __________)

Hereditary-generational or New Comer?

Land owned (acres)
Land leased-in (acres)
Land leased-out (acres)
% area irrigated by artificial irrigation
HH women involved in on-farm works?
Types of crops grown:
Skills of cultivation learned by HoH from: (father/ elders in family/ outside of family)
Formal Training: Yes / No From agency: Year / days:
Learning from training: (SPoPs/ machines/ innovative methods/ others)

Usefulness of formal training?:

Cultivation practices: plan/season, land prepare, tilling, seeds/sowing, irrigation, fertilizer/spray, monitor/cutting
Crop-1:

Crop-2:

Cro-3:

Crop-4:

1
 Objectives of farming?: (subsistence/ semi-commercial/ employ family males/ inter-generational compulsion)

How was farming continuity made possible?:

Allied activities done (if any)?:

Managed cash/money: (sources, amount, use, adequacy, saving/accumulation)

Problems/risks in farming: (Drought, yield/loss, cash-deficit, marketing, alternative coping mechanisms, relief)

Thought about leaving farming occupation: (Yes / No) & Why?

Current State of Family Farming (2017):

Land owned (acres)

Land leased-in (acres)
Land leased-out (acres)
% area irrigated by artificial irrigation
HH women involved in on-farm works?
Types of crops grown:
Skills of cultivation learned by HoH from: (father/ elders in family/ outside of family)
Formal Training: Yes / No From agency: Year / days:
Learning from training: (SPoPs/ machines/ innovative methods/ others)

Usefulness of formal training?:

Cultivation practices: plan/season, land prepare, tilling, seeds/sowing, irrigation, fertilizer/spray, monitor/cutting
Crop-1:

Crop-2:

Cro-3:

2
Crop-4:

Objectives of farming?: (subsistence/ semi-commercial/ employ family males/ inter-generational compulsion)

How was farm continuity made possible?:

Allied activities done (if any)?:

Managed cash/money: (sources, amount, use, adequacy, saving/accumulation)

Problems/risks in farming: (Drought, yield/loss, cash-deficit, marketing, alternative coping mechanisms, relief)

Thought about leaving farming occupation: (Yes / No)

Reasons (if thought of leaving farming)?:

Alternative occupation decided after leaving farming?: