Rashmi Durgapal
Humanities
Feburary 2022
In rural India, agriculture is a very important sector as the majority of the population primarily lies on farming and allied activities, as their main occupation. The present studytried to investigate the socioeconomic status (SES) of the people engaged in agricultural activities in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan. The target group was farmers and farm women residing in rural areas of district Udaipur. The study was conducted in Badgaon and Vallabhnagarpanchayatsamities of Udaipur district. A sample of 320 respondents was taken, out of which 160 were farmers and 160 were farm women through random sampling. The socioeconomic status (SES) scale developed under AICRP, Home Science Extension education was used with slight modifications for data collection. The personal, social, and economic variables of the respondents were analyzed using the interview technique.The findings revealed that 82.5 per cent of the respondents had low socioeconomic status while 17.5 per cent of the respondentshad medium socio-economic status. None of the respondents was in the category of a high socio-economic category. It was recommended that the socioeconomic policies should be formulated and executed in a way that can improve the socioeconomic status of rural people, especially in light of social and economic variables.
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