Agricultural Economics Research Review
Year : 2021, Volume : 34, Issue : conf
First page : ( 219) Last page : ( 219)
Print ISSN : 0971-3441. Online ISSN : 0974-0279.

Status of profitable combinations of mixed farming system by small tribal farmers of western Madhya Pradesh

Sukla Puja¹, Rai D P¹, Beohar Bipin^2,*

¹Gramodaya University, Chitrkut, Satna, 485 334

²Former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur-482 004

*Corresponding author: bipinbeohar@gmail.com

Online Published on 16 March, 2022.

Abstract

Scheduled tribes population represents a heterogeneous group scattered in MP. Jhabua, Alirajpur and Dhar tribal districts are in western Madhya Pradesh. A total 250 tribal farmers (125 marginal (0.1 to 1 ha) and 125 small (1.01 to 2 ha) who follow a mixed farming system were selected from 25 heavily populated villages of 5 densely populated blocks (out of 13) of Dhar district. The primary data was collected using an interview schedule for the year 2018–19. A mixed farming system on a particular farm of marginal and small farmers under study determines the particular farm includes crop production in a cropping sequence with raising of livestock (Milch cow) during a year. Farming enterprises include crops production with dairying. In this system, a combination of one or more crops or cropping system are carefully chosen and animals are kept with greater dividends than a single crop. In agriculture, management practices are usually formulated for individual crops or crops growing in a sequence. However, farmers are cultivating different crops in different seasons based on their adaptability to a particular season, domestic need and profitability. Therefore, the economics was calculated in a view all the crops grown in a year in the sequence with the number of cows rearing by marginal and small farmers in the particular mixed farming system.

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