A study was conducted to determine the socio-personal and socioeconomic status of the livestock owners in Jabalpur Division of Madhya Pradesh. Through multistage random sampling with a sample size 240 livestock owners. To explore the socio-personal and socioeconomic status of Livestock owners, ten criteria were used in order to establish a baseline. It was observed that a sizeable group of the respondents (52.50%) were found in middle age category, majority of the respondents (53.75%) were male in gender category, maximum number of the respondents (47.08%) belonged to Other Backward Caste, majority of the respondents i.e., 59.20 per cent were belonged to nuclear family type, majority of the respondents (52.50 %) were having medium family size, a sizable (44.17%) of the respondents had educated up to primary school level, majority of the respondents (55.00%) had primary occupation, maximum number of the respondents (40.00%) were marginal farmers(<1 hectares), majority (59.17%) of the respondents had small level livestock possession (Up to 3 Animal), majority of the respondents (52.91%) were earn annual incomes ranging from between Rs. 50,000 to ₹1 lakh.

Livestock owners, socio-personal, socio-economic, profile, India

The present study on scocio-personal and socioeconomic profile of livestock owners in Jabalpur division of Madhya Pradesh. Revealed that the majority of the livestock owners in the present study were middle aged males, with most of them belong to OBC category and the educational level most of livestock owners were at the primary level. Most of the respondents lived in nuclear family with medium family size. Most of the respondents are marginal farmers with small land holdings, relying heavily on livestock farming as their main occupation. On an average, the selected farms had a small size number of animal. However, their annual incomes up to a certain threshold. These findings underscore the diverse nature of livestock farming in the region and highlight areas for potential intervention and support to enhance productivity and sustainability.

Sarita Paradkar, Shobhana Gupta, Siddharth Namdeo, Dileep Kumar Jatav and Toran Lal Nishad (2025). Exploring the Socio-personal and Socioeconomic Profile of Livestock Owners in Jabalpur Division of Madhya Pradesh, India. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 17(1): 74-77.