International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Lohar Prashant Shivaji, VL Madhuprasad, KP Raghuprasad, Mudalagiriyappa, HK Pankaja and Mohan Kumar TL

abstract
Fragmentation of land has more serious problem of reduced land holding by the farmers and livelihood of rural people is being affected. Small and marginal farmers along with landless agricultural labourers have to be uplifted through agriculture and allied sectors and hence family farming play a major role in this aspect. Therefore, the study is conducted for systematic measurement of livelihood security of farm youth practicing family farming. The present study was conducted during the year 2022-23 in purposively selected Parbhani district. Two taluks namely, Parbhani and Purna were selected based on the maximum number of farm youth involved in family farming, in consultation with extension personnel of development department. Further, from each taluk, four villages were selected and from each village the twenty- farm youth were randomly selected comprising sample size upto 160. The investigation showed that in livelihood security, among dimensions namely social security, financial security, habitat security, educational security, environmental security, health security and food security the majority of farm youth were distributed medium to high categories. In relation to the personal psychological and socioeconomic characteristics viz., age, annual income, family size, family farming experience, achievement motivation, deferred gratification, scientific orientation, marketing orientation, land holding, credit orientation, mass media use, extension orientation, livestock possession and material possession were significantly and positively related with livelihood security of the farm youth respectively.