International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Shampi Jain, DP Rai, Dronak Kumar Sahu and VS Parihar

abstract
The study conducted “A Demographical Characteristics Analysis of Rice Producers in Satna District of Madhya Pradesh in India". The field level primary data were collected from randomly selected 240 rice growers of 9 villages of Satna district for the agricultural year 2021-22. The results from the study might be drawn from the following conclusions. The overall average family size was 4.75. Total, family composition in proportion of male, female and children was 41.00, 36.17 and 22.83 percent. The caste wise composition of sampled households was the maximum households General Caste i.e. 38.75 percent followed by other Backward Caste (27.92 percent). The highest percentage of respondents were form the age group of 18 to 40 years (37.75 percent) followed by the 40 to 60 year age group (23.97 percent). The overall highest occupation was in agriculture 56.44 percent followed by Agricultural worker (25.78 percent), Business (9.33 percent) and Govt. & private service (8.44 percent). The total illiterate was found to be 6.94 percent and the Literacy was found to be 93.06 percent. The overall farm size of sample farms was 1.80 hectares with 0.68, 1.50, 2.71 and 6.99 hectares for marginal, small, medium and large farms, respectively. The area under total cultivated land was observed 1.80 hectares and 100.00 percent.