Dept. of Basic Sciences, Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan, Himachal Pradesh (173 230), India
*Corresponding Author Bharti, e-mail: bhartibhardwaj69@gmail.com
Online published on 10 December, 2019.
In this paper an attempt was made to study the socio-economic status of apple orchardists of Shimla district of Himachal Pradesh. Multistage sampling was employed for selection of respondents. Primary data on demographic features (family size, age, education, and occupation), economic parameters (land inventory, livestock, cropping pattern etc), yield etc. were collected on well designed pre-tested schedules and tabular analysis was used to examine socio-economic status of the apple orchardists.
Apple, Himachal Pradesh, socio-economic status
