The present study was undertaken during October 2021 to November 2022. Four tribal dominated districts of Assam were purposively selected from four Agro climatic zones to analyze the perception of tribal men and women farmers towards agriculture. Three hundred and twenty respondents consisting of both tribal men and women farmers of a household constitute the final sample size of the present study. Measurement of perception was done by including some relevant statements which were grouped into five broad areas namely: Economic dimension, Social dimension, Technology dimension, Work environment dimension and other dimension. A total of 33 statements were taken and the responses were obtained in a five-point continuum of agreement representing ‘Strongly agree’ ‘Agree’, ‘Undecided’, ‘Disagree’ and ‘Strongly disagree’ assigning a score of 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 respectively for the positive statements and reverse scoring pattern for the negative statements. The results revealed that there existed significant differences in the perception between men and women respondents. Less than two third (64.38%) number of women respondents had medium to high level of perception while in men, it was observed that 51.88% belonged to the medium level towards agriculture. The finding of the study will be helpful to the extension agency, policymaker and administrators in developing appropriate extension strategy for the tribal farming community to develop more favorable perception towards agriculture for its sustainability.
The increasing trend of feminization in agriculture catalyzes the women folk to bear the entire responsibility of farming.As decision making is an essential ingredient in any productive activity, women should be given equal opportunity like men to take part in it. The study tries to portray the picture of gender’s production decision making pattern along with its impact factors on tribal farm women. A total of 320 respondents consisting of equal number of men and women farmers of a household were selected using multi stage random sampling technique. Personal interview technique was followed to collect the responses and relevant statistical tools were employed. The fi ndings indicated that there are signifi cant diff erences between men and women in the decision making pattern of all the productive activities in agriculture. Majority (40.63%) of the women had low followed by medium (36.25%) decision making power while a large number of men belonged to high (49.32%) level of decision making with a mean score of 54.03 and 113.25 respectively. Out of seven impact factors of decision making pattern on tribal farm women, it was found that personality status, family, social, economic, political, health status exhibited a positive signifi cant relationship at 1% level of probability while education showed positive correlation at 5% level. The coeffi cient of multiple determination (R2) value (0.619) suggested that the independent variables jointly contributed 61.90 percent towards variation in better production decision making power
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