International Journal of Horticulture, 2024, Vol.14, No.2, 89-98 http://hortherbpublisher.com/index.php/ijh 93 Figure 3 Economically active population in respondent's family (Source: Field Survey (2023)) Table 2 Educational status of respondents Education status N Percent (%) Illiterate 11 18.30 literate 49 81.70 Source: Field Survey (2023) 2.1.5 Occupation of the respondents Agriculture was the major source of occupation. All of the respondents were involved in agriculture (bean production) of varying scale. Besides agriculture, many of them were involved in business and government jobs (Table 3). Table 3 Occupation status of respondents Occupation N Percent (%) Agriculture 28 46.7 Business 21 35 Government job 9 15 Others 2 3.3 2.2 Land holding Land is one of the most important components of any farming system. According to the High Level of Commission on Scientific Land Reform (2010), farmers with less than 0.1 ha of land are considered as landless. Similarly, farmers having 0.1 to 0.3 ha of land are considered as marginalized farmers, farmers having 0.3 to 0.5 ha of land are considered as small farmers, farmers having 0.5 to 3 ha of land as considered as medium farmers and farmers having more than 3 ha of land are considered as large farmers (Table 4). Average land holding of farmers was found to be 0.87 ha (17.16 ropani), which indicated that majority of the farmers were medium farmers (Figure 4). Average land area used for bean cultivation was found to be 0.264 ha (5.20 ropani) (Figure 5). Table 4 Land holding size and land used for bean cultivation in ropani by respondent Total land (in ropani) Land with bean cultivation Mean 17.1668 5.2052 Minimum 2 1 Maximum 113 20 2.3 Cropping pattern Farmers used most of their land for bean cultivation in bean’s season (Jestha to Asoj) followed by wheat. Four type of cropping pattern was found in the study area (Table 5).
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