Socio-economic profile of the Kisan credit card scheme beneficiary and non-beneficiary farmers of Marathwada Region

The present study "Socio-economic profile of the Kisan credit card scheme beneficiary and non-beneficiary farmers of Marathwada region" was conducted in Latur and Osmanabad district of the Marathwada region. Ex-post-facto research design was adopted in this study. The study had shown the results as under, 59.17 percent of the KCC scheme beneficiaries and 60.00 percent of the non-beneficiaries were from middle age group, 29.17 percent of the beneficiaries educated up to middle level and graduation and 25.00 percent of the non-beneficiaries educated up to middle level, 71.66 percent of the beneficiaries and 74.17 percent of the non-beneficiaries belonged to medium size of family, 70.00 percent of the beneficiaries and 66.67 percent of the non-beneficiaries belonged to nuclear family, 66.67 percent of the beneficiaries belonged to medium annual income and 47.50 percent of the non-beneficiaries belonged to low annual income, 91.67 percent of the beneficiaries and 92.50 percent of the non-beneficiaries had cultivation as their occupation, 41.67 percent of the beneficiaries belonged to small land holding category and 45.83 percent of the non-beneficiaries belonged to marginal land holding category, 49.17 percent of the beneficiaries had medium social participation and 45.83 percent of the non-beneficiaries had low social participation, 64.17 percent of the beneficiaries and 49.17 percent of the non-beneficiaries had medium extension contact, 60.00 percent of the beneficiaries and 47.50 percent of the non-beneficiaries had medium sources of information, 53.33 percent of the beneficiaries and 42.50 percent of the non-beneficiaries had medium economic motivation, 55.00 percent of the beneficiaries and 45.00 percent of the non-beneficiaries had medium risk orientation, 47.50 percent of the beneficiaries and 41.67 percent of the non-beneficiaries had medium level of overall knowledge.