Agriculture sector provides the livelihood opportunity to majority of the rural people in Bihar, India. The dependency of schedule cast (SC) communities on agriculture is much more than other farming alternatives. These communities are doing farming activity to fulfill the basic family needs. To get maximum benefit from agricultural activities they use high skills and traditional knowledge. Small interventions of agricultural inputs can play a vital role to improve their livelihood. In this study, survey conducted among more than 100 farmers of SC community on the basis of their agricultural demand. The farmers of Nawada district (Village: Nad and Paroria) were benefited with agricultural inputs like tarpaulins and small water pumps. Today, by the use of these small inputs has resulted in significant increases (around Rs. 5,000.00 ± 1,750.00 household-1) in their livelihood as well as health status earnings for SC farmers. Farmers were pleased and expected more such activities in near future.
Ved Prakash*
ICAR-Research Complex for Eastern Region, Patna, Bihar (800 014), India
Rohan Kumar Raman
Govind Makarana
Pawan Jeet
Bikash Sarkar
Ashutosh Upadhyaya
Roshan Kumar
Kaushalya Foundation (NGO), Patna, Bihar (800 014), India
Ujjwal Kumar
Reena Kumari Kamal
Arti Kumari
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