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RESEARCH ARTICLETable 2 shows that livestock rearing was themajor occupation for 72 percent of the SHGmembers, 15 percent were labourers, 10 percentagriculturists, and 3 percent were doing business.While studying the SHGs in the country, Anon(2006) reported that 38 percent of SHG membersworked as casual labourers, 29 percent worked inown agriculture, and 17 percent were engaged in anon-farm enterprise. For 62 percent of the members,income from livestock was less than Rs.5000 perannum and 37 percent had Rs.5000-10000. Onepercent of the SHG members claimed to earn morethan Rs.10000 annually from livestock. Cent percent of the respondents were having less than onehectare of land. As per the SGSY guidelines, smalland marginal farmers are the target groups in thescheme. It is shown that 44 percent of therespondents were rearing less than four animals, 30percent reared 4-8 numbers, and 26 percent rearedabove 8 animals. Less availability of land may be thereason for small holding units. But now a days thereis a new trend that even though small holdings arereducing, there are many new entrepreneurs comingto the sector to start commercial farms.Table 3 Distribution of SHG members based on socio-psychological characters N=100Sl.No Characteristic Category Percentage1 Economic motivation Low 10Medium 71High 192 Social participation Low 10Medium 68High 223 Achievement motivation Low 15Medium 65High 204 Cosmopoliteness Low 21Medium 57High 225 Risk orientation Low 37Medium 43High 20It is seen in the table 3, that 71 percent of theSHG members were in the medium category foreconomic motivation, 19 percent were in the highcategory and only 10 percent were in the lowcategory. For social participation, 68 percent of SHGmembers were in the medium, 22 percent in high and10 percent in low categories. Similarly forachievement motivation, 65 percent of the memberswere in medium 20 percent in high and 15 percent inthe low categories. This finding is in closeconformity with that of Devalatha (2005) andArunkumar (2005). For cosmopoliteness, 57 percentof the members were in medium, 22 percent in highand 21 percent in low categories. Finally for riskorientation, 43 percent in medium 37 percent in lowand 20 percent in high category. The pattern is almostsimilar in the case of the first four sociopsychologicalcharacters. Above half of the SHGmembers were in the medium category. This findingwas in close agreement with those of SreedayaJIVA Vol. 10 Issue 1 April 201241