Year: 2018 | Month: June | Volume 4 | Issue 1
Farmers Income through Livestock Rearing and Cash Crop Cultivation in Dry Land Agriculture
Latika Sharma1* and Bharat Bhushan2
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Abstract:
The mean annual rainfall of western arid Rajasthan is 339 mm with a standard deviation of 158 mm as compared to 593 mm ± 217 mm. Due to erratic rainfall, the crop cultivation is at big risk. Livestock rearing is used as supplementary activity and a support system in lean periods of farming. The study was primarly based on the primary data for the year 2015-16 and conducted in dryland region of Rajasthan comprising of arid and semi-arid agro climate zones. The average income of farmers in these three districts from cultivation of cumin was ` 276962 per household while average income per household from livestock was ` 102030. Thus, 73 percent of the household income was contributed by crop production (cumin) and 27 percent by livestock rearing. The study revealed that an average household in Barmer, Bikaner and Churu district, 57.9 percent of total income of household was from moth crop production while 30.2 percent income was contributed by livestock rearing. In Jhunjhunu district the income farm crop production (40.90 per cent) and income from livestock (40.54 per cent) was almost equal, while 18.54 per cent of the total household income was from service or business.
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