Economic activity

STUDY ON DEVARAPALLE MANDAL

introduction
Main occupation of rural people is agriculture.
During agriculture off-season most of the people migrate in search of alternate
employment. The families are generally nuclear in nature and within families they
interchange goods and labour.

Economic resource of rural village

Involvement of people in economic generation through certain
activities which as fallows
1Form
2Non

activity

Form activity

Farm activity means agricultural activity and non-farm activity is

used synonymously with non-agricultural activity.
Form activities covers
Agriculture , horticulture , animal husbandry ,
Non form activity covers
Includes all economic activitiesviz.,household and non-household
manufacturing, handicrafts, processing, repairs, construction,
mining and quarrying, transport, trade, communication, community
and personal services etc.

Economic source of devarapalle

Occupation of village can be classified in to 4 categories
1Deriving

from agriculture

2Deriving

from industry ( small & medium scale )

3Deriving

from transportation

4Deriving

from individual skills like carpentry , tailoring , mechanic ,

plumber etc..

Group of people involved

Occupation of village can be classified in to 4 categories
1Deriving

from agriculture

2Deriving

from industry ( small & medium scale )

3Deriving

from transportation

4Deriving

from individual skills like carpentry , tailoring , mechanic ,

plumber etc..

Need for Supporting Group

# More than 20,00 women devarapalle mandal belong to the
Below poverty line category (ie. their annual income is less than
Rs. 24000 ). These women are from different caste groups such as
Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), most backward Caste
(MBC) backward caste (BC) and minority groups (Muslims).
# Most of them are illiterates/semi-literates. Only 15 percent of
this population own economic assets, such as weaving looms, cows
and goats, or a petty shop business.
# Occupation-wise they are landless laborers, agricultural laborers,
construction workers, weavers and contract weavers and daily wage
labor (coolie workers).The job availability in the agricultural sectors
is roughly for 3-4 months a year and the rest of the period they
travel usually to nearby areas for coolie work. They try to support
their families with their little income.

Role of SHG , NGO

These women and men can be organized into Self-Help Groups

(SHG). The goal of this program is to promote savings- and credit
activities, and to promote micro-enterprise development. This
can lead to a strong and permanent improvement of their socioeconomic conditions in a number of ways:

Because of the better welfare of these families, more children will

be able to attend school instead of being forced into agricultural
child labor.

The formation of these self-help groups will facilitate discussion

of many issues pertaining to their socio-economic, educational
and health status. Thus, the formation of this group provides a
forum to initiate many participatory activities (including training
and awareness camps).

This process will also lead to increased confidence and social

status, especially for women, in their communities.

Devarapalle SHG statistics

Total no of SHG activities : 1475
SHG activities Agricultural : 1103
SHG activities in Dairy : 249
SHG activities in Animal Husbandry : 79
SHG activities in other skills : 27
SHG activities in petty trades : 17

Devarapalle SHG statistics

Total no of SHG activities : 1475
Max SHG activities Agricultural :
chintalapudi

324 in

Max SHG activities in Dairy :

devarapalle

45

in

Max SHG activities in Animal Husbandry : 38 in

A.kothapalle
Max SHG activities in other skills :

25 in devarapalle

Max SHG activities in petty trades : 17 in devarapalle

Devarapalle SHG statistics

Total no of SHG activities : 1475
Min SHG activities Agricultural :
taruva

0,9

Min SHG activities in Dairy :

valabu

5,6

in pedanandipalle,
in chinnanadipalle ,

Min SHG activities in Animal Husbandry : 0,5

Min SHG activities in other skills :
,taruva

0,1

Min SHG activities in petty trades : 0,1

in tenugupudi , taruva
in chinnanandepalle

in tenugupudi , taruva

Devarapalle SHG inference

The max social help group acitivities can be seen in mandal head quarter ,devarapalle
Less social help group acitivites seen in taruva , n.gajapathinagaram