Socio-Economic Status of Marine Fishermen in Two Fishing Villages of Orissa

Balasubramanian S.; Bankey Bihari; Braj Mohan

doi:10.56093/ft.v38i1.18380

Authors

Balasubramanian S. Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin
Bankey Bihari Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute, Dehra Dun
Braj Mohan Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin

https://doi.org/10.56093/ft.v38i1.18380

Keywords:

Socio-economic status, fishermen, Orissa

Abstract

The socio-economic status of fishermen in two marine fishing villages of Orissa State viz., Pentakota and Belinoliasahi were measured using a Socio-economic Status Index (SESI) developed in the study. It was seen that the mean SESI scores of respondents in these two villages (57.53%) had differed significantly at 1% level. Of the nine regression co-efficients calculated between the SES scores and independent variables, the regression co-efficient of two variables viz., knowledge about technological practices and sources of information used were found to be positive and significant in Pentakota village and the R2 (73.38%) was highly significant. But in Belinoliasahi, the R2 (28.30%) was not significant. The results also revealed that the fishermen had favourable attitude towards the motorisation of fishing crafts (71.60% and 81.56%) in both the villages.