Problems Encountered by the Tribal Livestock Farmers of Southern Rajasthan.

The study was conducted in Sirohi district of Southern Rajasthan, to identify the problems faced by the tribal farmers and work out the relationship of problems with socio-economic and psychological traits of the respondents. The findings revealed that major problems faced by the tribal farmers were economic problem, less profit from domesticated animals, non availability of green fodder, non availability of superior male animal, harassment by the forest personnel in open grazing, lack of access to veterinarian, absence of scientific farming etc. The analysis revealed that occupational and family income from animal husbandry had positive and highly significant (P<0.01) influence on problems of livestock rearing. On the other hand, livestock unit showed negative and highly significant influence on problems of livestock rearing.