Socio economic status of vegetable growers in Bareilly district

Abstract

This study conducted Bareilly district is selected purposively as it is highly vegetable production area for the study undertaken. Another reason for its selection is the close familiarity of investigator with respect to locality, culture, people, officials, etc. Find that the middle aged categories of the people are more engaged in farming in the study area. Thus it is concludes that the general caste were dominant in the study area. It can be concluded that the maximum numbers of respondents was found literate. Hence, it may be concluded that almost every farmers who attain the age of 30 years was married. The range between minimum and maximum number of family members recorded from 4 to 22. On the basis of data, it can be said that agriculture is the main occupation of rural people. Other than caste based occupation of the respondents was having subsidiary occupation that majority of the respondents did have more interest in one participating in the social organization. It means that this area was having pucca type of housing pattern.