Author(s):

Gedam CV, Tekale VS and Gandhale AA

Abstract: The present study was conducted during the year 2015–2016 in Nagpur, district of Maharashtra state. From Nagpur district Ramtek tahsil was purposively selected as they have maximum population of tribal people i.e. 49856 tribal people which was more than any other tahsil from Nagpur district. From the Ramtek tahsil 10 villages selected purposively having high tribal population. From each village 12 tribal youth selected randomly. Thus total 120 respondents were in the sample of the study, which was able to express their views on participation in agricultural and subsidiary occupational activities. As regard with the profile of tribal youth it was observed that majority of the respondent belong to age group of 20 to 24 years, they were educated up to middle school, they had small land holding. Respondent had medium size of family and belonged to nuclear type of family. It was also observed that respondents family occupation was Agriculture + labour, respondents had low annual income and medium level of social participation, source of information, economic motivation and innovativeness.

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