Estimation of socio-ecological compliances and conflicts in terms of yield, income and livelihood in selected Farm Enterprises of West Bengal

The sociology of agriculture has now built up a strong kinship with ecology of agriculture; and in between there have been income, productivity and livelihood for myriad of farmers with marginal land and fragile income. It is nearly difficult to drive the apparently conflicting issues of income, ecology, productivity and livelihood to form an organic orchestration of what we call sustainable agriculture. Here, 105 respondents were identified from five villages viz. Chakbirohi, Kantabelia, Ghoragacha, Mitrapur, Kastodanga, from Haringhata block of Nadia district by following both random and non-random sampling method as per convenience and wherein applicable. Their responses were collected using pre-tested interview schedule. A set of criterion variables (dependent) have been elucidated with the help of a set of 22 exogenous variables, the following variables have been found to exert dominant impact on the criterion variables and merit to be included while declining micro-level policy for a resilient agricultural and social development. The dominant factors as extracted based on factor leading and Eigen values have got also extreme strategic importance. The ANN has gone further in highlighting the marker variables and can be applied in similar research locale across the terrains.