fodder cultivation and its influential role on livelihood status among the farmers in kerala

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newlineAbstract newlineABSTRACT newlineFODDER CULTIVATION AND ITS INFLUENTIAL ROLE ON LIVELIHOOD newlineSTATUS AMONG THE FARMERS IN KERALA newlineBy newlineREEBA JACOB, M.Sc. (Ag.) newlineDegree : Doctor of Philosophy in Agricultural Extension and Communication newlineChairman : Dr. M. ASOKHAN, Ph.D newlineDeputy Registrar (Affiliation) and Professor (Agricultural Extension) newlineOffice of the Registrar, newlineTamil Nadu Agricultural University, newlineCoimbatore - 641003 newline2020 newlineThe study entitled Fodder Cultivation and its influential role on livelihood status newlineamong the farmers in Kerala was undertaken to study the impact of fodder technology newlineon livelihood of farmers so that the results will help in understanding the needed newlinetechnology interventions in green fodder and helps in improving the overall productivity newlineof farm and economy of the farmers and develop suitable livelihood strategies to support newlinethe survival of the small scale farmers of the country. An index EESI was developed to newlineanalyse the sustainability of fodder cultivation and another index LPI was developed to newlineunderstand different dimension of livelihood of fodder cultivating farmers. The study newlineconcentrated in identifying the contributing variables towards livelihood, sustainability newlineand perception of farmers on fodder cultivation. Constraints faced by fodder cultivating newlinefarmers were enlisted and suggestions to overcome the constraints were obtained from newlinethe farmers. newlineThe study was conducted in three districts of Kerala state. The fourteen districts of newlineKerala are distributed as Malabar region (northern Kerala), Kochi region (central Kerala) and newlineTravancore (southern Kerala). From each region, district with highest area under fodder newlinecultivation was selected Wayanad from northern Kerala, Palakkad from central Kerala newlineand Kottayam from southern Kerala were selected. From each district, two blocks with newlinemaximum area under green fodder were identified and selected as location of research. newlineThe identified blocks were Uzhavoor and Erattupetta from Kottayam, Attappady and newlineChittoor from Palakkad and Kalpetta and Mananthawadi from Wayanad. List of