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Implementation of Revised KCC Scheme
A. SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF FARMERS
3.1 Some important socio-economic features of farm business of the sample farmers
(714) are discussed in this chapter. The features covered in this chapter pertains
to occupational pattern, literacy level, size of holding, size of family and farm
family labour available therein, cropping pattern, cropping intensity, average
yield rates & prices of different crops, average per acre gross value of production,
cost of cultivation and average per acre net return, etc. All these data relate to the
reference year of the study i.e. 2015-16.
3.2 The general profile of KCC farmers is presented in Table - 3.1.
Table- 3.1: General profile of KCC farmers
Sl States Districts
Sam-
ple
HHs
SC/
ST
farm-
er/HHs
Avg
Age
-yrs.
Grad-
uate &
Above
Avg
No of
family
mem-
bers
Avg no
of fam-
ily mem
work as
farm lbr
No of
families
work
for MN-
REGA
HHs as
member
of SHG/
JLG
1
Assam
Jorhat
54 16 36 3 4.0 1.22
4
8
Darrang 50 0 41 1 4.7 1.38
15
6
2
Bihar
Gaya
57 8 45 11 6.9 2.6
2
1
Begusarai
63 3 47 18 6.4 2.2
2
9#
3
U. P.
Var/ Bij
60 0 52 13 6.6 1.08
0
10
Moradabad 64 6 45 4 6.4 1.14
2
7
4
Punjab
Kapurthala 60 2 55 10 5.5 1.85
2
0
Bathinda 60 0 53 4 6.3 1.63
0
0
5
Maha
Akola
60 15 45 16 5.5 1.57
18
10
Sindhudurg 59 1 46 2 5.3 1.29
0
1
6
Kar
Dakshin
Kannada
60 0 52 9 4.9 1.60
7
0
Bellary 67 7 53 5 5.1 1.22
6
0
Total sample
714 58 -
96
-
-
58
52
% of total sample
8.12 48 13.44 5.66 1.56 8.13 7.28
Note: # includes 6 Farmers Club members
1.3 It can be seen from Table 3.1 that farmers belonging to SC/ST community
accounted for 8 percent of the total KCC farmers selected for the study. Farmers
having education of graduation and above accounted for 13.4 percent of the total
sample. The average family size of the sample farmers was 5.66 and the average
number of family members engaged in farming came to about 1.56 members.
As many as 58 families out of total 714 (8 percent) reported to be going for
MNREGA works. Also, 52 KCC farmers reported that at least one of their family
members was a member of a SHG or JLG or Farmers Club.
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