Indian economy is heavily reliant on agriculture and livestock. Approximately two-thirds of rural communities rely on livestock for their livelihood. Livestock has traditionally been an integral part of the framing community of Tripura. The rearing of cattle, pigs, poultry, and other livestock provides livelihood support to the rural masses in the state. The present study was conducted in Tripura during 20221-22 with objective to analyse access the livelihood security and livelihood diversifi cation of the farmers practicing dairy farming. For data collection, three districts (West Tripura, Khowai, and Sepahijala) were selected by the purposive sampling method. Out of total 12 selected villages, a sample of 120 dairy farmers were chosen for primary data collection. The access the livelihood security consists of 7 subindicators viz. Food security, Economic security, Health security, Education security,Social security, Infrastructural security, and Institutional security. The fi ndings of the study indicated that there is infrastructural security 78.28 per cent contributed the most to improving the overall livelihood security of farmers, whereas social security 28.33 per cent contributed the least to improve the overall livelihood security of farmers. Majority of respondents had medium 'Livelihood Diversifi cation (67.50%) while 36.7 per cent were found in the category of low 'Livelihood Diversifi cation'. Only 0.83 per cent of respondents in the study area were motivated to highly diversify their livelihoods. Income and land holdings were found to be signifi cant associated variables with livelihood diversifi cation.
The movement of entrepreneurship promotion and development in the past few decades has gone a long way in North East India, particularly in the state of Assam. Moreover, North East is seen as a region where more women are involved in income generating activity than women of the other parts of the country. Women play an important role in the development of our country. Therefore, entrepreneurship development among women is a global issue. It is therefore, important for development of a family and social progress. The word Empowerment simply means equal status, opportunities and independence. In simple words women empowerment means to give freedom to women to make decision of their own and make a better place for them in the society. But the strict reality is that women entrepreneur is still facing problem and hurdles in India as compare to the male counterpart. Two Important factors are required for the empowerment of Indian women one is Education and another one is Entrepreneurship. Considering these factors, this investigation was carried out in the state of Assam. Data were collected through interview method using structured interview schedule for selecting the sample of 120 women entrepreneurs engaged in the area of food processing and preservation.
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