Abstract

<div><p><em>An attempt was made to find out the preference of the subsidiary and off-seasonal occupations of horticultural farmers. The study was conducted on 30 medicinal plant growers of Bhiwani , Hisar and Mohindergarh districts of South West Zone of Haryana state. Maximum number of medicinal plant growers were in the age group of 40-56 years (53.3%), hailed from upper caste (60.0%), had nuclear families (86.6%) with slightly more than half of them (56.6%) having family size of 5-7 members, maximum of them had education upto senior secondary level (36.6%) with land holding upto five acres (40.0%). No formal training was attended by any of the growers before starting cultivation of medicinal plants. They had positive attitude towards majority of the aspects related to medicinal plants. </em></p></div>

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