Evaluation of socio-economic factors on mustard production in gird agro-climatic region of Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

The farmers are socio-economically well off as compared to the non-farmers, community. A list of all the villages in each block was prepared and one village was selected randomly for the study. Further, a list of all the mustard growers with their size of farms were prepared and classified into small (< 2 ha), medium (2-5 ha) and large (> 5 ha) categories and 10% of mustard growers through multi stage stratified percentage proportionate random sampling method for the study. It is observed from the data that at overall level the highest number of selected mustard producers were found to be come under middle (50.83%) age group followed by young (33.75%) and old (15.42%) age groups. As for size of farm increase illiteracy was found to be decrease from 33.88 (small) to 25.00 (large) percent.