Department of Extension Education and Communication Management, College of Community and Applied Sciences, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
*Corresponding author: A Dagar; E-mail: ashajaat12@gmail.com
Online Published on 14 July, 2023.
The present study was aimed to find out the factors affecting by tribal women and association of different factors with livelihood security of the tribal women in animal husbandry based livelihood activities. The study was conducted in three districts of Rajasthan namely Dungarpur, Udaipur and Banswara. A total of 100 respondents constituted the sample of the study. Data were collected through a well-structured interview schedule. The research findings revealed that there was highly significant association between all the factors and livelihood security of the respondents as the calculated chi-square values were greater than the tabulated values. This indicates that the livelihood security of the respondents was associated with all the factors i.e. access to resources (χ2 = 25.80**), access to technological information (χ2 = 15.17**), market and regular income (χ2 = 29.24**, χ2 = 15.62**), risk factors (χ2 = 19.88**), risk taking ability (χ2 =30.74**) and decision-making ability (χ2 = 34.55**). It can be inferred that all these factors affected to livelihood security of the tribal families with animal husbandry based livelihood.
• Study was conducted to understand the association of various factors with livelihood security among tribal women in Animal Husbandry activities.
• There was close association with various factors such as access to resources, access to technological information, market and regular income etc.
Factors affecting, Association, Tribal women, Livelihood security, Significant association, Chi-square values
