Author(s):

Lokesh Ahirwar and MA Khan

Abstract: Socio-economic status refers to the position of an individual and his family occupies with reference to the prevailing social standard. With better socio-economic status other resources farmers are able to increase the productivity of their cropping system. The socio-economic status is determined by various social and economic variables, viz. caste, occupation, education, social participation, and size of land holding, type of house, farm power, material possession, and family. Thammi et al. (2006) ^[16] found that the medium socio-economic status was prevailing among the selected farmers. The majority (50.00%) were in the high socio-economic category because farmers had more urban contact and engaged in commercially viable crop enterprises such as floriculture and horticulture. Rice-Maize systems currently occupy approx. 3.5 million hectares in Asia. The highest acreage is in India followed by Nepal. Rice, wheat, and maize are the major crops of India. Rice-based cropping systems, with wheat or maize as a secondary crop, are predominant in India. Rice and maize are the two principal cereals crop of Chhattisgarh state. The present study was examined the assessment of socio-economic status of maize growers families of Durg district of Chhattisgarh state. Data was collected from rice-maize grower families that were selected randomly from each selected 12 villages to make a sample size of 120 rice-maize farm families, with the help of a pre-tested interview schedule. The finding reveals that a higher percentage (36.66%) of the respondents falls under the upper-middle class. About 26.16 percent of the respondents belong to the middle class, followed by 26.64 percent were found in the upper class, only 5 percent were under lower class and 2.54 percent of them belonged to lower-middle-class status. This clearly indicates that the socio-economic statuses of most of the respondents are towards the upper side which is not representative to the state average. This may be because of selected respondents were having assured irrigation, practicing double cropping and having a big size of land holding. These attributes influenced the socio-economic status towards the higher side for most of the farm families.

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