Table 2.

Socio-economic and farm-related attributes of respondents.

Socio-economic & farming attributes	Categories	Percent (%)
Gender	Female	31.9
	Male	68.1
Age (years)	31–40	39.8
	41–50	28.8
	51–60	18.1
	61 or above	13.3
Education	Illiterate	28.1
	Primary	9.5
	Middle	12.1
	Secondary	10
	Higher Secondary	7.7
	Graduation	18.6
	Postgraduate	14
Household size (numbers)	1–4	9.5
	5–9	47.2
	10–14	26.7
	15 & above	16.5
Farming experience (years)	Less than 10 years	21.9
	11–20 years	28.8
	21–30 years	20.2
	More than 30 years	29.1
Landholding (kanal)	1-5 kanal	44.9
	6-10 Kanal	29.8
	11-15 anal	11.4
	16-20 Kanal	6
	More than 20 kanal	7.9
Type of farming	Subsistence	48.4
	Commercial	10.2
	Mixed (Both)	41.4

Source: (Field Survey, 2022); 19.8 kanal = 1 ha