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there is no primary health centre and the nearest one is in Siddapur. Agricultural inputs like
pesticides are available from the two privately owned shops. There are three grocery shops,
four tea stalls, two tailoring shops and a medical shop in Gundur. There are a few more
shops such as wilding and bicycle repairing shops.
In HagedaJ. there is no pnmary health centre although there are two private medical
practitioners. The nearest college and primary health centre is in Siddapur. However, the
village has a youth club and a few small temples. There is a local vegetable market in this
village. which is a daily market unlike the village weekly '·santae oo • Agricultural inputs like
seeds and pesticides are available from the privately owned shops in the villages. But the
distribution of traders who stoked agricultural implements is unsatisfactory. Although
farmers arc aware of institutional credit, and a large number of farmers have availed of this
facility from the nearby banks and credit co-operatives, yet informal credit is rampant in
both the villages. Often, for marketing of their produce the growers are at the mercy of
private traders, Non government organizations are not operating in both the villages.
Socio-economic features of the respondents in Gundur and HagedaJ
For obtaining the required information, an interview was conducted with the head of the
household or any member of the household who was actually engaged in farming in the
selected study area. This was done as almost all the queries were dealing with agriculture
and irrigation. Thus, our respondent need not necessarily be the head of the household. At
times other members of the household have assisted the respondents during the interviews.
Male members head the majority of the houses. Female heads primarily comprise of
widows and took the help of male family members to give interviews.
The socio-economic profile of the respondents has been presented below: The sample
households have been categorized into five groups: Upper castes, Other Backward Castes
(OBC), Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribes (SC & ST), Muslims and Christian, the details
of which are presented in table 4.2.
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