Research Scholar, Department of Geography and Applied Geography, University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohunpur, Darjeeling, West Bengal
Online published on 12 July, 2019.
The way of life as well as socio-economic condition of the marginal farmers are different in many ways from civilized and technologically advanced society. Marginal farmers of the study area usually depend on subsistence agriculture. In this regard an attempt has been made in this paper to understand the socio-economic condition of marginal farmers. The present paper is purely based on primary data collected from the study area. The study area has 101 villages out of which 5 villages are selected for survey of 30 families for stratified random sampling. It has been observed that most of the peoples of the study area are highly dependent on agricultural activities. It is also noticed that these peoples are socio-economically backward. There need a number of measures to the overall socio economic development of the farmers.
Socio-economic condition, marginal farmer, subsistence agriculture, dependent
