Socio economic impact of coffee production: A case study of Mangsebung Rural Municipality 1, Ilam, Nepal

Abstract

The study entitled, Socio Economic Impact of Coffee Production: A Case Study of Mangsebung Rural Municipality 1, Ilam, Nepal Main focus of the is tofind out socio- economic situation of the respondents to examine the situation of coffee production in study area and to analyze the socio economic impacts of coffee farming among respondents. The study only focuses on the situation of coffee production and impacts of coffee production. Only 25 respondents were participated in this study. The study only limited on Mangsebung municipality ward no 1 of Ilam. The study will based on qualitative research deign. To meet the objectives of the study, descriptive and exploratory research design is applied in this study. It used exploratory design to invites to the study area. The data agglomerated are in the from the field survey i. c. primary resource. The data analyzed in descriptive way. In addition case study for the household's survey. This study was draws to explore the socio-economic activities in the study area. To get its accurate result, primary sources from the area and secondary sources from the related books, reports journals and websites documents and scholarly published and unpublished articles were the sources of data. The data from the study was processed by editing coding, classifying tabulating. Qualitative data were analyzed by using simple statistical and mathematical tools like percentage, table, graph etc. Coffee is one of the main cash crops of Nepal. Since long term coffee farming has been put in priority. Tea and coffee board had established before 20 years. Government brings various program to promote coffee plantation in Nepal, however, coffee production could not bring positive changes among people. In my study area people have begun coffee farming before 20 years. Before coffee plantation, people used to go aboard for labor work. After coffee plantation local people involve in coffee farming. After selling coffee, respondents' earn more than other crops productions. Like that after selling coffee respondents enrolled their children in private school, they follow regular check up and improve the health situation. Before start coffee farming local people has no income so that they could not go to hospital for treatment so that their health situation could not be well. Majority of the respondents feel changes in sanitation. Federal, Province, local government brings policy about coffee plantation. In central there is coffee board that could not extend program to local level so that each of the government should make relationship with governance Government should provide supports to coffee farmers. Federal government should manage to sell coffee in international market.