Correlates of cop diversification among small and medium farmers

Abstract

The present study entitled, 'Correlates of Cop diversification among small and medium farmers 'was conducted in Sakoli and Lakhani tehsils of Bhandara district of Eastern Vidarbha Zone with an aim to study the crop diversification among small and medium farmers as well as to find out the relationship between selected profile of small and medium farmers and crop diversification. The descriptive research design of social research was used and 120 respondents were selected by proportionate random sampling. Findings of the study revealed that maximum number of the respondents (47.50%) were middle aged group with (38.33%) had education up to secondary school level, (65.83%) engaged in agriculture as their main occupation, majority of the respondents (45.00%) had medium level of scientific orientation, with regard to crop diversification most of the farmers 53.33 per cent respondents start to grow vegetable crop followed by sugarcane crop (40.00%). With regard to relational analysis instead of age all other selected variables under the study had shown positive and highly significant relationship with crop diversification at 0.01 level of probability.