Income, Consumption and Expenditure Pattern of Farm and Nonfarm Families in a Selected area f Amravati Disitrict

Investigation was undertaken to study the Income, consumption and expenditure pattern of farm and nonfarm families of Amravati district. For these, 128 samples were studied out of which 64 were farm families and 64 were non-farm families. The class I and class II categories of farm family earned from both i.e. farm and non-farm activities, whereas the class IV category of farm family earned only from farm activities. Also class I, class II and class III of non-farm family earn from both i.e. own occupation and subsidiary occupations, whereas class IV category of non-farm family earned maximum from own occupation and very less extent from subsidiary occupation. Consumption was made more on foods in class I and class II of farm and nonfarm families.