1Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, CSKHPKV, Palampur-176062, Himachal Pradesh
2College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University-Imphal-795004, Manipur
3School of Social Sciences, College of Post Graduate Studies in Agricultural Sciences, CAU-Imphal, Umiam-793103, Meghalaya
*Corresponding author: ferozendri@gmail.com
Online published on 22 February, 2021.
The wellbeing of the farmers matters for the development of the sector as they are at the centre of production process. The state of Sikkim, located at the North Eastern Himalayan region of India, is the first state to be declared as an organic state in 2016 where about 75000 ha of agricultural land are under organic. Hence, this paper was an attempt to understand and quantify the satisfaction derived by the farmers from farming and overall life situation. About 55.71% of the respondents had deficit farm receipts over its basic expenditure which implies that they were not satisfied at farming. Similarly, the self-rating approach also revealed that only 47.14% and 38.57% of the farmers were satisfied at farm input and output indicators, respectively, but when the subjective indicators related to farming were included, about 71.43% farmers were found to be satisfied at farming. Majority of the respondents (80%) were satisfied at their overall life due to their satisfaction at indicators under other life situation dimension. The inner happiness outweighed the shortfall in income.
