Changing livelihood strategy among the chepang communty : a case study of kankada VDC, Makwanpur, Nepal

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Livelihood strategy Among the Chepang Community: A Case Study of Kankada VDC Makwanpur District, Nepal". The general objectives of this study are to examine the factor of livelihood of changing strategy Chepang, to examine the Socio-cultural and demographical characteristics of Chepang and to find out the socio economic condition of Chepang. Chepang of Kankada VDC is miserable condition. They are back warded in every sector. The study attempts to documents of the livelihood strategies of Chepang and focus socioe conomic and occupational pattern in the study area. Kankada VDC, Makwanpur Districtin Narayani Zone. In this VDC, there were 405 households. In the study area 50 households are selected for the random sampling from Kankada VDC Silinage, Todke, Sanotodke, Damrang and Charimara .The respondents are household head. Simple random sampling techniques have been used to select the sample. In this study data were colleted from field survey by applying household's survey, questionnaires and observation methods. The study found that total 50 households are interviewed reported that they had adopted agriculture as a main occupation. As a main occupation. The total population of 50 households is 542among them 272 are male and 270 are female. Among the 50 respondent only 58% found the Nuclear family and 42% Joint family. It was found that from study, 40% are illiterate, 22% % have permanent toilet where as 60% are temporary and 18% are none, and 52% have facility of tap water and 36% of the households had a 6 to 10 ropani land. For 4 to 6 month, 48% of the household have food sufficient. The above analysis is shows that Chepang community of Kankada socially and economically deprives the livelihoods strategies of Chepang past and presents distribution of livestock there were 67 cows kept for agriculture purpose 10 years ago but at present 83 cows, Similarly now Chepang people are also seen on Bee Farming where the study shows that 40 households were involved in Bee Farming, there were 2% Land 10 years ago but at present 10% Land who own 16 ropani and above Land. It was found that, to improve the livelihoods strategies of Chepang there traditional type of farming system should be changed in to modern. Some sort of intensive type of farming scheme should be encouraged in this area. „JT‟ and „JTA‟ must be sent for their help regularly, so that they could be convinced about intensive type of farming and the implication of small farmer program will be fruitful for uplift the Chepangs livelihood. Government should provide some low interest loan for livestock and agriculture production. Government should be focused income generation activities, such as goat farming, pig farming, bee keeping, vegetable farming etc. They were not trained with any vocational guidance or proper training, for the mobilization of local resources skill development training also required them.