Impact of integrated tribal development project in terms of socio-techno-economic change among tribal farmers

Abstract

Webster describes the impact as the force, impression or operation of one thing on the other, affect a forceful control and collusion. To assess this situation, a study was conducted in Khedbrahma and Vijaynagar taluka of Sabarkantha district were selected purposively being tribal dominating area. Total 20 villages were randomly selected from 2 purposively selected talukas and 10 respondents were randomly selected from each village. Thus, total sample size was 200 farmers. And it is observed that 52.00 per cent of the respondents had medium level of socio-techno-economic change followed by 30.00 per cent with low level of socio-techno-economic change, whereas, 18.00 per cent of the respondents were found to have high level of socio-techno-economic change. And it is observed that six independent variables viz., education, annual income, economic motivation, risk orientation, scientific orientation and attitude toward Integrated Tribal Development Project of the respondents had positive and significant correlation with their level of socio- techno- economic change.