Vol. 6, Issue 4 (2018)
Attitude of rural youth towards farming as a major occupation
Author(s): Gunesh S Chachere, VV Gohad, RM Bhoyar and KK Bhagat
Abstract: The study “Attitude of rural youth towards farming as a major occupation" was conducted in Chandur Bazar and Amravati talukas of Amravati District, 80 respondents (rural youth) were purposively selected for study. The data were collected by personal interview method with the help of structured interview schedule. The data were tabulated, analyzed and interpreted. The findings of the study revealed that the majority of rural youths i.e. 52.50 per cent of respondents were having senior college level of education, 76.25 per cent of respondents having low level of family income upto 1, 00, 000. However, the observation also show that most of the respondents i.e. 45.00 per cent were possessed small size of land holding (1.01 to 2.0 ha) and 63.75 per cent of respondents have medium social participation. Majority of respondents i,e.65 per cent of respondents had medium achievement motivation, similarly about 63.75 per cent of respondents have medium level of economic motivation, and about 66.25 per cent of respondents had medium level of risk orientation. The finding revealed that more than half of respondents i.e. 55 per cent of respondents had medium extension contact and Majority of the respondents 48.75 per cent of respondents was interested in Services (Government /Non-Government). Urban orientation was comes under the medium category. As regard the dependent variable majority of the respondents had favourable attitude towards farming as a major occupation. From correlation analysis the level of significance was tested at 0.01 and 0.05 level of significance and revealed that 8 out of 10 variables were significant, remaining variables were non-significant. The significant variables includes achievement motivation, economic motivation, risk orientation, extension contact, urban orientation found the positive and significant level of probability 0.01 with attitude level. The variable viz. family income, family land holding, field of interest found positive and significant at 0.05 level of probability with attitude index. The variable education, social participation have shown non-significant relationship with attitude level.
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Gunesh S Chachere, VV Gohad, RM Bhoyar, KK Bhagat. Attitude of rural youth towards farming as a major occupation. Int J Chem Stud 2018;6(4):2789-2791.
