Occupational preference and realization of difficulties by displaced tribal farm women in hill districts of Assam

Abstract

A study on occupational preference and realization of difficulties by the displaced tribal farm women in hill
districts of Assam in rearing livestock was carried out with stratified randomly selected one hundred each
respondents from two districts namely Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong making the total sample size 200.
A pre-tested, reliable and valid interview schedule encompassing preference for occupation and a check
list containing seventeen items were used for data collection. Among the displaced tribal farm women,
preference of occupation from higher to lower as primary source of livelihood was agriculture, followed
by animal husbandry, business, weaving and craft making where service did not feature. The realization
of difficulties by the respondents was in low level and there was no significant mean difference between
the two districts. No time for weaving and craft making, needing to put more labour, lack of open grazing
field for livestock, education of children suffering and no recreation against tedious labour were the major
problems the displaced tribal farm women faced due to rearing of livestock. The realization of difficulties
was positively and high significantly (P<0.01) correlated with occupation (0.41) when the displaced tribal
farm women had livestock