Social economic profiling and psychological characterizing of the vegetable growers in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

Vegetable cultivation in India has second rank in the world. Entrepreneurship contributes to development of a country in several ways like assembling and harnessing the various inputs, bearing the risks, innovating and imitating the techniques of production to reduce the cost and increase quality and quantity. Present study was conducted in the district of Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh. 120 respondents from 10 different villages were selected randomly. Most of the respondent’s belonged to middle-aged group (61.66%), having education up to middle illiterate (36.67%), having high level of annual income (58.34%). Their main occupation (43.33%) is vegetable cultivation having medium size of family (45.83%). Most of the respondents had utilizing medium level of mass media (49.16%). Majority of the respondents had medium level of social participation (51.66%) and had low level of contacts with extension (40.88%) agents.