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Profile and Training Exposure of Medicinal Plant Growers

Kiran Sain, Beena Yadav, Rita Goel
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v4.n2.p12
Abstract

An attempt was made to find out the preference of the subsidiary and off-seasonal occupations of horticultural farmers. The study was conducted on 30 medicinal plant growers of Bhiwani , Hisar and Mohindergarh districts of South West Zone of Haryana state. Maximum number  of medicinal plant growers were in the age group of 40-56 years (53.3%),  hailed from upper caste (60.0%), had nuclear families (86.6%) with  slightly more than half of them (56.6%) having family size of 5-7 members, maximum of them had  education upto senior secondary level (36.6%)  with  land holding upto five acres (40.0%). No formal training was attended by any of the growers before starting cultivation of medicinal plants. They had positive attitude towards majority of the aspects related to medicinal plants. 

Keywords
Caste, Education , Entrepreneurial motivation, Medicinal plant growers, Training
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