Interaction
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 33
  • Issue: 2

Occupational satisfaction of the farmers in the vindhyan region of eastern Uttar Pradesh

  • Author:
  • Kusumakar Gautam1, Kerobim Lakra2, Pankaj Kumar Rav3
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 11 to 21

1Ph. D, Department of Agricultural Economics, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, 221005

2Research Scholar, Department of Agricultural Economics, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, 221005

3Research Scholar, Department of Extension Education, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU, Varanasi, 221005

Online published on 14 November, 2017.

Abstract

This study uses a cumulative logistic model to extend the satisfaction approach to an analysis of the farmers ’satisfaction with their crop production and engagement to agriculture. Regression results indicate that relative income, not absolute income from agriculture, has enhanced job satisfaction of the farmers with their farming. Farmer satisfaction with crop cultivation is also estimated to increase with their age, their involvement in extension services, larger farm size, and a higher expectation of earnings from agriculture and per capita income.

Keywords

Agriculture, crop production, Job satisfaction, Logistic regression