Study on socio-economic status and characteristics of farmers adopting agroforestry system in Kaushambi district of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

The study was conducted on respondents adopting agroforestry-based farming system in eight villages of Kaushambi district of Uttar Pradesh. From each village 20 farmers were selected making a total sample size of 160 respondents. The study was conducted on the landholding-wise and the respondents were divided as small, medium and large farmers. The respondent farmers were medium-aged to old; among the small and medium farmers majority were middle pass whereas among large farmers most of them were high school pass; most of them had agriculture/agroforestry experience of more than 10 years; family size was from medium to large ie above 5 members; were having mainly nuclear families and semi-cemented or cemented houses. Their annual income was above Rs 26, 000; the status of the farmers grew who adopted the agroforestry system. The risk orientation was low to medium in the three categories of the farmers; the scientific orientation was of medium level. Exposure to media was found more among the big farmers and it was also found that group meetings were attended by all the farmers in majority.