Year: 2018 | Month: September | Volume 63 | Issue 3
Labour Employment and Income Generation from Agro-forestry System in U.S. Nagar District of Uttarakhand, India
Anuj Kumar
S.K. Srivastava
DOI:10.30954/0424-2513.3.2018.18
Abstract:
The paper has examined the labour employment generation of the prevailing agro-forestry system. Two block of Udham Singh Nagar was selected for study purpose in which two spacing was followed by sample farmers i.e. 7m×3m and 5m×4m. Study was conducted by taking in to labour engaged in the Agro forestry System. Aggregate measures were used to determine the labour employed in agro-forestry system in different years of plantation. The result indicated that Agro-forestry with spacing 7m×3m require less labour to be employed in comparison to spacing 5m×4m. The result of study has suggested that policy support in terms promotion is to provide some incentive to agro-forestry farmers.
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