Trees in Rainfed Agro-ecosystem - A Socio-economic Investigation in Bundelkhand Region

Abstract

This paper attempts to study the various socio-economic and bio-physical variables influencing the farmers behaviour towards tree planting in their lands. Six variables viz. cultivated land, uncultivated land, family size, number of literate persons in a family, livestock and number of existing trees were taken for the study. Results of multiple correlation analysis revealed that significant interrelationship exists between number of planted trees and the uncultivated land as also between number of planted trees and number of existing trees. The value of coefficient of determination (R²) indicated that 48 per cent of variation in dependent variable i.e. number of planted trees (saplings) is explained by chosen independent variables. Hence, an empirical model can be established based on these chosen predictors for estimating the number of planted trees.