Feba K.S.1*, T.A. Rather1, G.M. Bhat1,Jauhar Rafeeq1, Khan Ifra1 and Chitra Srivastava1
Division of Silviculture and Agroforestry, Faculty of Forestry, J&K India
Email:febaks4733@gmail.com
Received-21.05.2022, Revised-19.06.2022, Accepted-05.08.2022
Abstract: The study investigated theLivelihood significance of homegarden agroforestry resources in block Lar of district Ganderbal.Multi – stage random sampling technique was used to select the villages and households. For collection of data 5 village’s viz., Barsoo, Manigam, Benhama, Watlar, Dangar pora were selected by using procedure of simple random sampling. A total of 118 households were selected from the sampled villages having 12 percent sampling intensity by simple random sampling technique for the field study. The findings revealed that people are in underprivilaged condition in all respects as reflected by their low socioeconomic and homegarden resource characteristics. A total of 25 species belongs to 15 families were mostly founded in study area out of which agricultural components has the highest position i.e.15, followed by 6 fruit component, 3 medicinal plants and one tree component.The family Brassicaceae and Rosaceae has the highest representation of four home garden species.Most of the species were used for Vegetables, Fruits, Fuelwood and Fodder for the Household purposes which is followed by medicines etc. Vegetables, Fruits, Fodder and Fuelwood are the prime resources collected by almost all the households (91.52%) from homegardens whereas the involvemet of households in collection of medicines and others is comparatively low (10.16 %).The study concluded that the homegardens plays a crucial role in livelihood security of rural people by providing fuelwood, fodder, fruits, vegetables, medicines etc and contributing significantly to the gross annual income and employment opportunities. The livelihood support from home garden resources depends on multitude of household socio- economic and homegarden resource characteristics such as education, type of family, size of land holding, livestock possession, main occupation, gross annual income.
Keywords: Homegarden, Socioeconomic, Livelihood, Kashmir
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