Arpita Sharma
Assistant Professor
College of Agriculture, GBPUA&T
Pantnagar, Uttarakhand
Mustfa Hussain
Assistant Professor
Sherwood College of Management
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Abstract
Despite of growth and development, entire district of Nainital and Bhimtal block are clunging to problem which might be categorized in to two types viz; Common problems and Gender Specific Problems. Numerous problems like: declining soil, water and other natural resources, decreasing size of farm holding; Input use inefficiency; costly and scarce agriculture labour, poor access to credit and investments; slow diffusion of relevant technologies; competiveness of quality and prices in export & domestic markets. Present investigation was conducted in four villages viz; Bhaluti, Kausani, Jeoli and Sariyatal of Nainital District in Uttarakhand. Data was collected in month of October 2017 with interview schedule. Total 50 respondents were selected for above said investigation.
