1Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi, India
2Nalanda College of Horticulture, Nalanda, Bihar, India
3Indian Institute of Farming Systems Research, Modipuram, Uttar Pradesh, India
4Chander Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
5Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Morena, Madhya Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author: vyadav21@gmail.com
Online published on 14 February, 2017.
A three-stage sampling technique was adopted for selection of block, villages and paddy growers. The district Etah was selected purposively for the research work. From the list of the total number of the farmers of the each village, a sample of 100 paddy growers (the farmers having 20 percent and above area under paddy in their cropping patterns) was selected and stratified into 3 farm size groups viz. 70 marginal (0–1 hectare), 19 small (1–2 hectares) and 11 large farmers (2 and above hectares) indicates that number of milch animals decreases with the increase in farm size. The number of draught animals maintained by marginal households is higher than that of small and large size farms. The number of milch animals is lower in each category than that of draught animals. The investment on land, in percentage term is 87.17 percent, 86.94 percent and 87.15 percent in marginal, small and large farms respectively. The percentage of total investment in livestock on marginal, small and large farms size group comes to 9.01 percent, 8.12 percent and 7.38 percent respectively. The value of land is highest on all categories of farms followed by the value of livestock, agriculture implements and irrigational structures.
