SERICUL TURE AND THE PROCESS OF CHANGE - Institute for ...

Number of Adults and Relationship Status: The number of
adults in a family is an important variable in understanding the internal
dynamics of family in the context of sericulture. The sericultura1
adoption and intensity in different family types can be better understood.,
if this is seen in the context of the number of adult males and females
available in the family. Table 6.2 gives the number male and female
adults in sericulture families by family type and relationship status. For
better comprehension, the matro family has been clubbed together with
nuclear family. Similarly, patro and matro nuclear family have been
clubbed together to form a complex nuclear family. All extended family
types have been put together to form a single category.
About fifty per cent of the households are with a working single
male adult While there is a similar per cent of households with a
working single female adult. There are 13 single households of two
working adults, one male and one female each, which are of husband
and wife combination. There are 18 households with three working
adults with an equally distributed combination of one and two of either
sexes. Of these, about two thirds are of nuclear type. There are nine
households where there are more than two adult women and there are
ten households where there are more than two adult men.
In families where there are just two adults alone, sericulture
leaves much work-stress. In such families, agricultural activities are kept
to the minimum. For the same reason, it is hard for large farmers with
less number of adults, especially where there are less than two adult
males, to adopt sericui ture. It is not the case with other households
where there are some additional hands, even if they happen to be
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