People of rural India face a lot of hardships to earn livelihood. A majority of them are engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry and other ancillary activities. Income from agricultural activity has been as erratic as the monsoon. Hence, rural people are forced to think of generating additional...

The empricial study of farmers concludes that majority of the male farmers of South Gujarat are in ancestral occupation of farming. Farmers possess preliminary education level, they hold on an average 10.48 vighas of land. Farmes have age-old experience in cultivation of sugarcane. Surprisingly,...