Participation of Rural Youth in Rural Development Activities

The present study was conducted in College of Agriculture, Latur under Marathwada Krushi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani(M.S.) in 2010–11. The study was conducted in Latur district. Three tahsils and four villages from each tahsil were selected randomly. Ten respondents from each villages were selected to comprise a sample of 120 respondents. The respondentswere personally interviewed and the data collected were processed and statistically analyzed by using statistical techniques like frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, coefficient of correlation. For the study independent variables namely age, education, family type, family size, use of sources of information, extension contact, social participation, and achievement motivation were selected. In this study it was observed that majority of (37.50%) of there spondents had low level of participation followed by medium level of participation category 35.83 per cent and the remaining 26.67 per cent of the respondents belonged to high level of participation category in rural development activities.