Impact of IFS models on economic status of rural women

The present study was planned to study the impact of IFS models on economic status of rural women. The study was conducted in Gudli village of Udaipur district of Rajasthan. The AICRP on Home Science has promoted two IFS model viz. crop + horticulture and crop + poultry in the adopted village of MPUAT, Udaipur. From the selected village, 50 respondents for crop + horticulture model and 60 respondents for crop + poultry model were selected for the study. For accomplishing the present investigation, interview technique was used to collect information from the rural women beneficiaries. After data collection, data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean per cent score and paired t-test. Overall impact of both IFS models in relation to income generation was found to be good. For calculating the difference between the two means of income generation before and after the adopting both IFS model, t test was applied. The calculated value was found highly significant at 1 per cent level of significance.