2023, Vol. 8, Special Issue 4, Part B
Study of socio-economic profile of the correspondence of major cereals grower with special reference to wheat and paddy in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh
Author(s): Risha Singh Sengar and Ramchandra
Abstract: The present study entitled “Study of socio-economic profile of the correspondence of major cereals grower with special reference to wheat and paddy in Kanpur Dehat District of Uttar Pradesh” was conducted in the Akbarpur block, in 2021-22 with the objective of finding socio-economic profile of the study area of the selected respondents. For the socio-economic profile the data was collected by the personal interview through the open and closed questionnaire. The tools used in our research for analysing the data were Tabular analysis for socio-economic. The data was collected for Age, type of family, Total population, caste, education, occupation, card holders, land holding, and cropping pattern in different agriculture seasons that is Kharif, Rabi and Zaid. Most of the respondents were from adult age (27-50 years) group with 54.40%, population from adult age (18-59 year) group with 38.85%, backward class people were dominated with 41.60%, with a total literacy rate of 72.80% and mere illiteracy with 27.20%. Agriculture is being the primary occupation where maximum peoples are involved for their bread and butter with 54.80%, and severe to moderate poverty was seen with BPL card holder with 67.20%. The total land holding for cultivation was accounted for 484.86 ha. Land used in different growing season was 427.14 ha for paddy in kharif, 436.96 ha for wheat in rabi season, 168.50 and 160.78 for jowar and moong in zaid season respectively. When analysed statistically the data on caste, education and occupation were found to be significant and rest others were non-significant.
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Risha Singh Sengar, Ramchandra. Study of socio-economic profile of the correspondence of major cereals grower with special reference to wheat and paddy in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh. Int J Stat Appl Math 2023;8(4S):114-118.