Relationship of Socio-Economic Factors With Attributes of Homegarden Agroforestry Systems in Northern Part of West Bengal

The present study has explored the district-wise relational analysis between the total carbon stock in the home gardens and different socio-personal, socio-economic and socio-psychological and communication related attributes of home gardeners in Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri and Siliguri sub-division of Darjeeling districts of West Bengal. Majority of the respondent belongs to medium utilization of resources category and in age category of 30–50 years with low education, medium level of family education, high educational aspiration, Moreover, the majority of the respondents represented medium risk orientation category. Finally the total C stock was distributed with mean of 101.27, standard deviation of 143.02 and coefficient of variation 141.22 indicating high consistency level of distribution with majority of homegardens had low level of total carbon stock. Pearson's co-efficient of correlation clearly shows that educational aspiration is positively and significantly associated with the total carbon stock at 5% level of significance. The majority group of respondents are the most important stake holder in case of adopting strategies of climate change through managing home garden land use system.