Farm diversification options for ensuring livelihood security of peri-urban farmers in eastern plateau and hill region: Learnings from Farmer FIRST Project
The research work was undertaken in four villages near Ranchi, Jharkhand under the Farmer FIRST Project to test the effectiveness of the technological options in improving the profitability of peri-urban agriculture system. Based on Principal Component Analysis of data on agri-economic conditions of...
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| author | Priya Ranjan Kumar Sudarshan Maurya Asit Chakrabarti V K Yadav Soumen Naskar Sanju Gupta Sonal Kumari Arun Kumar Singh B P Bhatt Bikash Das |
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| description | The research work was undertaken in four villages near Ranchi, Jharkhand under the Farmer FIRST Project to test the effectiveness of the technological options in improving the profitability of peri-urban agriculture system. Based on Principal Component Analysis of data on agri-economic conditions of farmers, the farm households could be classified into five broad typologies, viz. 1: Marginal farmers and landless labourers, 2: Cereal dominated small farmers, 3: IFS based small farmers, 4: Livestock based marginal farmers and 5: Cereal based medium farmers. Results of two years of experimentation indicated promising technological options like rainy season cultivation of solanaceous vegetables, cultivation of crops like wheat, chickpea and other rabi and summer season vegetables in rice fallow, management of ecto- and endo parasite in the animals and supplementation of area specific mineral mixture, cultivation of oyster mushroom for increasing income from agricultural production system. The project has resulted in increase in income of all typologies of farmers with a maximum increase in case of small farmers practising integrated farming and minimum increase in case of marginal farmers and landless labourers. Notably, income from non-farm sources saw a decrease in all five typologies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-66e89fd95f854127bc640bc9f6f144002023-02-14T09:10:09ZengIndian Council of Agricultural ResearchThe Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences0019-50222394-33192020-06-0190310.56093/ijas.v90i3.101508Farm diversification options for ensuring livelihood security of peri-urban farmers in eastern plateau and hill region: Learnings from Farmer FIRST ProjectPriya Ranjan Kumar0Sudarshan Maurya1Asit Chakrabarti2V K Yadav3Soumen Naskar4Sanju Gupta5Sonal Kumari6Arun Kumar Singh7B P Bhatt8Bikash Das9ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Farming System Research Centre for Hill and Plateau Region, Ranchi, JharkhandICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Farming System Research Centre for Hill and Plateau Region, Ranchi, JharkhandICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Farming System Research Centre for Hill and Plateau Region, Ranchi, JharkhandICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Farming System Research Centre for Hill and Plateau Region, Ranchi, JharkhandICAR Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi, JharkhandICAR Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ranchi, JharkhandICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Farming System Research Centre for Hill and Plateau Region, Ranchi, JharkhandICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Farming System Research Centre for Hill and Plateau Region, Ranchi, JharkhandICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Farming System Research Centre for Hill and Plateau Region, Ranchi, JharkhandICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region, Farming System Research Centre for Hill and Plateau Region, Ranchi, JharkhandThe research work was undertaken in four villages near Ranchi, Jharkhand under the Farmer FIRST Project to test the effectiveness of the technological options in improving the profitability of peri-urban agriculture system. Based on Principal Component Analysis of data on agri-economic conditions of farmers, the farm households could be classified into five broad typologies, viz. 1: Marginal farmers and landless labourers, 2: Cereal dominated small farmers, 3: IFS based small farmers, 4: Livestock based marginal farmers and 5: Cereal based medium farmers. Results of two years of experimentation indicated promising technological options like rainy season cultivation of solanaceous vegetables, cultivation of crops like wheat, chickpea and other rabi and summer season vegetables in rice fallow, management of ecto- and endo parasite in the animals and supplementation of area specific mineral mixture, cultivation of oyster mushroom for increasing income from agricultural production system. The project has resulted in increase in income of all typologies of farmers with a maximum increase in case of small farmers practising integrated farming and minimum increase in case of marginal farmers and landless labourers. Notably, income from non-farm sources saw a decrease in all five typologies.https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/101508Eastern plateauFarm diversificationHill regionLivelihood securityPeri-urban farmers |
| spellingShingle | Priya Ranjan Kumar Sudarshan Maurya Asit Chakrabarti V K Yadav Soumen Naskar Sanju Gupta Sonal Kumari Arun Kumar Singh B P Bhatt Bikash Das Farm diversification options for ensuring livelihood security of peri-urban farmers in eastern plateau and hill region: Learnings from Farmer FIRST Project The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences Eastern plateau Farm diversification Hill region Livelihood security Peri-urban farmers |
| title | Farm diversification options for ensuring livelihood security of peri-urban farmers in eastern plateau and hill region: Learnings from Farmer FIRST Project |
| title_full | Farm diversification options for ensuring livelihood security of peri-urban farmers in eastern plateau and hill region: Learnings from Farmer FIRST Project |
| title_fullStr | Farm diversification options for ensuring livelihood security of peri-urban farmers in eastern plateau and hill region: Learnings from Farmer FIRST Project |
| title_full_unstemmed | Farm diversification options for ensuring livelihood security of peri-urban farmers in eastern plateau and hill region: Learnings from Farmer FIRST Project |
| title_short | Farm diversification options for ensuring livelihood security of peri-urban farmers in eastern plateau and hill region: Learnings from Farmer FIRST Project |
| title_sort | farm diversification options for ensuring livelihood security of peri urban farmers in eastern plateau and hill region learnings from farmer first project |
| topic | Eastern plateau Farm diversification Hill region Livelihood security Peri-urban farmers |
| url | https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/101508 |
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