Socio-economic Status of wheat growers in Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh (India)

Abstract

The present study was conducted to identify the socio-economic status of the farmers practicing wheat cultivation based farming in Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh, multistage, stratified random sampling method was used for the selection of district, blocks, villages, and respondents. The study was conducted in six village of Hamirpur district of Uttar Pradesh with the sample size 180 marginal, small, medium and large farmers cultivating wheat crop. The finding of the study revealed that, 34.44% Higher medium age (46-60year) and 79.45% had literate. The respondent main occupation was agriculture. About 75.55% respondent belong OBC and 94.44% respondent belong to Hindu religion. The annual income of wheat growers that about 61.67% were found in the low income category ranging from less than 50 thousand. 56.11% farmers have pucca house and 56.35% have motor cycle, only 1.62% have car which is large farmers. In land holding 34.81% land has large farmers which is average 5.59 ha/ farmers. In the study area, farmers depend on only private tube- well. The main domestic animal was buffalo after that goat. On the basis of the finding it is suggested that socio- economic status of the farmer can be improved by improved technical knowledge about wheat cultivation. Farmers should adopt AI technology for technical knowledge.