02487nam a2200205Ia 4500999001700000003000400017005001700021008004100038082001900079100001300098245009500111260008800206502000900294520164200303700003001945856005701975856011802032942001202150952011902162  c26196d26196OSt20220216154214.0140128s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a630.71bLAT/CO  aLatha A   aConsequences of conversion of marginal homesteads for planting rubber in Kottayam District  aVellanikkarabDepartment of Agricultural Extension, College of Horticulture  c1997  bPhD 3 aA study was conducted in Kottayam district to find out the causes and 
consequences with respect to the nature, extent and conversion (composite index 
developed from nature and extent) of marginal homesteads for planting rubber. The 
respondents included 200 convertors and 100 non-convertors. 
The study revealed that outmigration of hired labour, availability of hired labour, 
farming experience and perception about attributes of rubber cultivation could explain 
the maximum discrimination between convertors and non-convertors. 
Among the eighteen independent variables selected, availability of family labour 
and number of crops emerged as the most important factors influencing conversion. 
Gross cropped area and number of crops could explain the maximum variability of 
conversion. Net area under rubber was the factor which exerted maximum influence 
on other variables effecting conversion. 
The most important consequences of conversion expressed by convertors were 
outmigration of hired labour, outmigration of family labour, soil loss (erosion) based on 
magnitude and decrease in water availability, increase in social status and decrease 
in water table based on directionality. 
Community based land use strategy which involved production and sharing of 
farm produce among groups of individual homesteads based on similarity of 
topography, soil type, water resource dependence, local needs may become inevitable 
to sustain and maintain the diverse requirements of local communities in place of 
conversion of homesteads to monocrops like rubber alone. Rubber could only become 
a part of such land use systems. 

  aRanjan S Karippai (Guide)  uhttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810083620  uhttps://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/displaybitstream?handle=1/5810083620&fileid=b7adfc50-1412-482d-a4b5-4e88b4438605  2ddccTH  00102ddc4070aKAUCLVbKAUCLVcTHESESd2014-03-18l0o630.71 LAT/COp171244r2014-03-18 00:00:00w2014-03-18yTH