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International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
objectives of identifying various options for household diversification available with rainfed
farmers with an estimation of the diversification index and determining factors that influence
livelihood diversification strategies.
Methodology
The pigeonpea growing farmers from the high pigeonpea cultivating area of Telangana State were
selected for the study. The area under pigeonpea was reported to be relatively more in three mandals
namely Tandur, Peddamul and Dharur in 2021. Two villages each from the three mandals selected.
Data were collected from 75 farmers constituting a sample of study comprising small, medium and
large farmers largely cultivating pigeonpea and other crops on aspects of sources of family income
received from crops, livestock, horticulture, remittances received from government schemes and
other household activities. Various farm and non-farm sources of income were identified and
significant factors that determine the impact of rural livelihood of rainfed farmers in predominant
pigeon pea growing areas.
Results
The majority of farmers were small and marginal (70%), medium (25%) and large (5%) who are
cultivating short-duration pigeonpea crop varieties of 150 -180 days duration. pigeonpeais
cultivated both in kharif and rabi seasons. In rabi season, pigeonpea crop usually is transplanted
and irrigated. A majority of small and marginal farmers were found to have high diversity index
ranging between 0.7040-0.7346 and medium (24.66 %) and large farmers (5.48 %) have a diversity
index of less than 0.6560 which indicated that small farmers are more diversified compared to large
farmers (Table1). Small farmer households depend upon other non-farm activities and government
schemes for their livelihood other than farming in contrast to medium farmers and large farmers
livelihood patterns.
Diversity index for different landholders concerning household income in pigeon pea growing areas
Institutional and policy innovations for accelerated and enhanced impacts
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