Impact of crop diversification on socio-economic life of tribal farmers: A case study from Eastern ghats of India

Abstract

In this study we investigated impact of crop diversification on socio-economic life of tribal people from eastern ghats of India. We have adopted linear regression formalism to check impact of cross diversification. We observe a positive intercept for almost all factors. Coefficient of correlation is calculated to examine the inter dependence of CDI and our various individually measured dependent variables. A positive correlation is observed in almost all factors. This study shows that a positive change occurred in their social, economic life in the post diversification era.