Socio - economic status of Dardi community maintaining Gurezi cattle in Gurez valley of Kashmir, India

Abstract

The present study was conducted in Gurez and Tulail tehsils of district Bandipora of union territory of Jammu and Kahmir with objective to ascertain socio-economic characteristics of farmers who are rearing Gurezi cattle. A well-structured questionnaire was developed for collection of data and the data was analyzed using statistical methods. The survey findings indicate that the majority of the respondents (71.42%) belonged to large-sized families, while 22.86% had medium-sized families with 6-8 members, and the remaining 5.72% were from small-sized families. In terms of age distribution, a significant portion of respondents (72.38%) fell within the middle age group of 31-55 years, followed by the young age group up to 30 years (16.67%) and the old age group above 55 years (10.95%). The study also revealed that the joint family system was more prevalent (57.61%) among the respondents compared to the nuclear family system (42.38%).