Family farming efficiency of women headed households

Abstract

The present study was conducted during in purposively selected Tumakuru district. By using ‘snow ball technique’ 160 respondents were purposively selected. Data were gathered through structured interview schedule and analyzed using appropriate statistical tools. The study revealed that in family farming efficiency, among dimensions namely productivity, profitability, employment generation, family labour, competency in farm resource use and socio - psychological sensitivity, the statements such as farm diversification is important key to enhance productivity in family farming, use of organic manures and wastes recycling helps to sustain profitability, different farm enterprise of family farming provides enough scope to employ the family members round the year, family members and their farms are linked and co-evolve and one should spend considerable amount of time in planning and searching for best resource use practices to get higher yields were ranked I.Further, more than one third (35.00%) of the respondents belonged to medium category of overall family farming efficiency. Hence, concerned developmental departments should plan programmes exclusively on women headed households practicing family farming as a target group by developing data base of women headed households to increase the family farming efficiency.